Upcoming Summer Schools/Workshops/Lectures
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​​​​​2026 Africa Summer School in Economics (AFSS-2026), Hybrid
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Host: The American University in Cairo, Egypt
Date: June 5 - 9, 2026
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Organizers: Samer Atallah (Local committee chair),
Mohammed Bouaddi & Dalia Ghanem (Program Co-Chairs)
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Instructors:
Matias Cattaneo (Princeton University)
Bruno Crepon (ENSAE, Paris)
Guido W. Imbens (Stanford Univ., 2021 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics)
Ismael Mourifie (Washington Univ. in St. Louis)
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Important dates:
Application deadline: January 7, 2026 - Click here to apply
Admission decision: January 15, 2026
Registration deadline: April 30, 2026
(All participants must be members in good standing of the Econometric Society).
Past Summer Schools/Workshops/Lectures
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2025 Africa Training Workshop in Macro-econometrics (AFTW-2025), Online
Topic: Time series modeling with applications in macro-econometrics
Dates: November 5 – 7, 2025 & November 12 – 14, 2025​​​
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Host: ENSEA, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, May 23 - 28, 2025​
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2024 Africa Training Workshop in Econometrics - Causal Machine Learning (AFTW-2, 2024), Online
December 3 - 6, 2024 ​
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2024 Africa Training Workshop in Development Economics (AFTW-1, 2024), Online. October 2 - 4, 2024
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2024: Africa Summer School in Econometrics (AFSS, 2024), May 31 - June 4, 2024
Host: Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Statistique et dEconomie Appliquee (ENSEA), Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire​
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2024: The Griliches Lectures of the Econometric Society
Delivered on June 5, 2024 online as part of the 2024 Africa Meeting of the Econometric Society
Host: Ecole Natonale Supérieure de Statistique et d'Economie Appliquee (ENSEA), Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire
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Lecturer: Pr. Ellen McGrattan (University of Minnesota)
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Slides: Lectures 1 & 2: TBA
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​Dec 2023 - Africa Training Workshop in Computational Macroeconomics (Online, AFTW2-2023, Dec 13 - 15) Topics: Solving dynamic equilibrium models. Essential numerical tools and perturbation analysis
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Title: Climate Change and Causal Inference
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2022: The Hotelling Lectures of the Econometric Society
Delivered on May 31 - June 1, 2022 online as part of the (virtual) 2022 Africa Meeting of the Econometric Society - Host: Ethiopian Economic Association (EEA), Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia
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Lecturer: Pr. Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (Princeton University)
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Lecture 1: Credit Cycles and Capital Flows
Lecture 2: Liquidity, Business Cycles and Unconventional Monetary Policy
Lecture 3: Financial Crises, Monetary and Macroprudential Policies
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