Born in Roma;EMAIL:giuseppe.arbia@rm.unicatt.it URL address:   Http://www.unich.it/~arbia/

Office address: Largo Francesco Vito, 1 – 00168 Roma – Ph. 39 (06) 3015 6109

EMAIL: Giuseppe.arbia@rm.unicatt. it

URL address: Http://www.unich.it/~arbia/

 

Current position:

Full Professor of Economic Statistics, Faculty of Economics, Department of Statistics and Institute of Hygiene, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, since December 2011.

 

Other current appointments:

Professor of Econometrics, LUISS “Guido Carli” University, Rome (Italy).

Professor of Statistics, University of Italian Switzerland at Lugano (Ticino, Switzerland).

Professor of Statistics, Department of Economics, New York University (US).

 

Previous positions:

Full Professor of Statistics and of Economic Statistics, University “G. D’Annunzio” of Chieti (Italy). Full Professor of Economic Statistics (Faculty of Statistics, University of Padua, Italy); Associate Professor of Statistics (Faculty of Economics, University of Trento, Italy); Associate Researcher (Faculty of Statistics, University “La Sapienza”, of Rome, Italy).

Academic degrees:

1984- 1987: Doctor of Philosophy – University of Cambridge (UK),

1977-1981: BA in Statistics, University “La Sapienza”, Rome (Italy)

 

Visiting scholar:

New York University, Stern Business School, New York, March-April 2011.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, February 2008.

University of Texas at Dallas, January 2008.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, January-February 2007.

University of Cambridge, UK, August 2005.

University of Sheffield, UK, September 1991.

University of California at Santa Barbara, National Center for Geographical Information and Analysis, September-November 1989.

 

Academic tasks:

Chair of the Doctorate in “Economics”, University “G. d’Annunzio”, May 2011-December 2011.

Chair of the Doctorate in “Innovation”, University “G. d’Annunzio”, November 2010-May 2011.

Member of the Administration Council, University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti (Italy). 2006 – 2009.

Director of the Department of Business, Statistical, Technological and Environmental Sciences, University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti (Italy). 2003 – 2006.

Member of the Evaluation Committee (Nucleo di Valutazione) of the University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti (Italy). 2000-2003.

Chair of the BA program in Environmental Economics, Faculty of Economics, University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti (Italy), From November 1999 to March 2004.

Chair of the Doctorate in Economics and Management, 2004, 2005, University “G. d’Annunzio”.

Member of the board of the Doctorate in Applied Econometrics, Tor Vergata University, Roma, 2002 -2007.

 

Main Scientific Societies memberships:

International Statistical Institute, American Statistical Association, Royal Statistical Society, Regional Science Association, Spatial Econometrics Association, Società Italiana di Statistica.

 

Chair of Scientific Associations:

Chairman of the Spatial Econometrics Association (www.spatialeconometricsassociation.org). 2006-present.

 

Prizes, fundings and awards:

Swiss National Science Fundation, International Exploratory Workshop, 2011; NATO Collaborative Research Grant, 1990, 1994; NSF National Science Foundation Research Grant, 1989; N.A.T.O. Award, 1986,1987,1988; Fitzwilliam Trust Research  Fund, 1987; Borsa C.N.R.,1985, 1987; British Council Advanced Fellowship, 1985-1986.

 

Governmental tasks:

Committee for the revision of electoral boundaries for the election of Italian Senate and Chamber representatives, 1994.

President of the “Observatory of Job and Professions” of San Marino Republic. 1996 – 1998.

Member of the working group on “Environmental Information” of the Authority for Statistical Information, Presidence of the Italian Council of Ministry, 2003 – 2004.

 

Research projects coordinated:

20 projects national and International financed by CNR (Italian National Research Council), MIUR (Italian Ministry of University), NATO.

 

Teaching experience:

Basic Statistics, Advanced Statistics, Econometrics, Business Statistics, Economic Statistics, Applied Probability, Spatial Econometrics, Econometric models and time series, Basic Econometrics on Eviews ©, Statistical Quality Control, Multivariate Statistics, Applied Statistics on SPSS ©, Time series analysis, Stochastic processes and their applications, Spatial statistics, Social Statistics.

At a Bachelor, Master, Ph D and Executive level.

 

Congresses organized:

• VI Annual Meeting of the “Spatial Econometrics Association”, Salvador Bahia, Brasil, July 2012. (Chair of the scientific committee).
• Third “Health Econometrics” Workshop, Siena, December, 2012. (Member of the scientific committee; Invited position paper).
• V Annual Meeting of the “Spatial Econometrics Association”, Toulouse, July 2011. (Member of the scientific committee).
• IV Annual Meeting of the “Spatial Econometrics Association”, Chicago, June 2010. (Member of the scientific committee).
• Second “Health Econometrics” Workshop, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, July, 2010. (Member of the scientific committee).
• III Annual Meeting of the “Spatial Econometrics Association”, Barcellona, July, 2009. (Member of the scientific committee)
• First “Health Econometrics” Workshop, Milan, December, 2008. (Member of the scientific committee).
• II Annual Meeting of the “Spatial Econometrics Association”, New York, November, 2008. (Chair of the local organizing committee. Member of the scientific committee)
• International Workshop on “Spatial Econometrics”, Roma, 25-27 May, 2006. (Chair of the local organizing committee. Chair of the scientific committee)
• International Workshop on Spatial statistical methods in archaelogical and cultural heritage safeguard research “, Pescara, 18-19 July 2000. (Chair of the local organizing committee, Chair of the scientific committee)
• International Workshop on “Advances in spatial statistics: methods and application”, Trento, 20-21 October 1994. (Chair of the local organizing committee, Chair of the scientific committee)

 

Summer schools organized

• “Spatial Econometrics Advanced Institute”, 4 weeks course with international students and international instructors, Faculty of Economics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Director of the course and instructor of the ‘Spatial Statistics’ course.

Held yearly in May-June since 2008. 5-th edition in 2012.

(http://www.spatialeconometricsadvancedinstitute.org)

 

Membership in Boards of Editors of Scientific Journals:

Empirical Economics, Papers in Regional Sciences, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences.

 

Referee activity:

Empirical Economics, Economic Modeling, Economic Letters, Papers in Regional Sciences, International Regional Science Review, Spatial Economic Analysis, Urban geography, Journal of Economic Geography; Regional Studies, Applied Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis; Geographical Analysis, Geographical Systems, Regional Studies, China Economic Review.

 

Seminars and Conferences:

(full list at http://www.sci.unich.it/~arbia/l16.htm) More than 100 invited speeches, seminars, conferences in the main universities and institutions all over the world.

 

Publications:

6 books published by CEDAM-Padua, CUSL-Padua, Kluwer Academic-Dordrecht (The Netherlands) and Springer-Verlag (Berlin). 1 book in preparation for Palgrave-McMillan.

7 Chapters of books published by Chapman & Hall, Taylor & Francis, Phisica-Verlag, Springer-Verlag, Martinus Nijhoff, Franco Angeli, Cacucci.

About 170 articles, working papers, conference proceedings and reviews published on the main International and Italian scientific journals.

 

In brief:

• ·       35 articles published on journals listed on Thomson ISI Journal Citation Reports.
• 7 articles on refereed books
• 3 books with international publishers
• 4 books with Italian publishers
• 6 edited special issues of ISI Thompson listed journals
• 14 Articles on other refereed journals
• 102 other publications

            Bibliometric indices:

ISI-Thompson

• Number of impacted papers: 35       (last 5 years 2007-2011: 16)
• Total impact: : 39.327                       (last 5 years 2007-2011: 16.944)
• Average impact per paper: 1.123     (last 5 years 2007-2011:   1.059)

Publish or Perish

• Papers:   86
• Number of Citations:       737
• Cites/paper:        8.57      Cites/author:   610.58    Cites/year:     28.35
• Average Weighted Citation Rates: AWCR                       80.12  AW-index:         8.95 AWCRpA  61.95
• Hirsch index (h-index):    13 hc-index:    10        hI-index:          10.56
• g-index:  (Egghe index) 25         e-index:           19.34
• hI,norm:  12        hm-index:        12.50
• Hirsch a=4.36, m=0.50               Contemporary ac=3.20

Some recent publications (last 5 years) 1. Articles on Journals listed on Thomson ISI Journal Citation Reports 2006

 

1. Articles on Journals listed on Thomson ISI Journal Citation Reports

 

 [1] Frontiers in spatial econometrics modelling (with Enrique Lopez Bazo and Francesco Moscone), Economic Modelling, 29, 1, 1-2. 2011. IF = 0.588

 

 [2] A lustrum of SEA: Recent trends following the creation of the Spatial Econometrics Association (2007-2011), Spatial Economic Analysis, 6, 4. 2011. IF = 0.944

 

 [3] The Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities in Italy. A Sectorally Detailed Spatial Data Analysis using Local Labour Market Areas (with Laura De Dominicis and Henri De Groot) (to appear on Regional Studies). 2011. IF = 1.462

 

[4] Clusters of firms on an inhomogeneous space: the case of high-tech industries in Milan in 2001 (with G. Espa, D. Giuliani and A. Mazzitelli) (to appear on Economic Modelling). 2011. IF 0.588

 

 [5] Aggregation of regional economic time series with different spatial correlation structures (with G. Espa and M. Bee), Geographical Analysis, 43, 78-103. 2011,  IF 1.641

 

[6] Advances in spatial econometrics (with Harry Kelejian), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 40, 5, 253-254, 2010, IF 0.910

 

[7] Detecting the existence of space-time clusters of firms (with Giuseppe Espa, Diego Giuliani and Andrea Mazzitelli), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 40, 5, 311-323, 2010, IF 0.910

[8] Detecting negative spatial autocorrelation in georeferenced random variables (with Dan Griffith), International Journal of Geographical Information Sciences), 24, 3, 417-437, 2010, IF 1.533

 

[9] Growth and convergence in a multi-regional model with space-time dynamics  (with Elhorst JP and Piras G), Geographical Analysis, 42, 3, 338–355, 2010, IF 1.641

 

[10] A new class of spatial Concentration measures (with G. Piras) Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 53, 4471-4481, 2009, IF 1.228

 

[11] Institutions and geography: empirical test of spatial growth models in European regions (with M. Battisti and G. Di Vaio), Economic Modelling, 27, 12-21, 2009, IF 0.588

 

[12] Spatial dependence in the tails of air pollutant distributions: alternatives to the spatial correlogram (with Copetti, M. and Lafratta, G.), Environmetrics, 20, 3 , 221 – 345, May 2009. IF 0.790

 

[13] New spatial econometric techniques and applications in regional science (with Bernard Fingleton), Papers in Regional Sciences, 87, 3, 311-317, 2008. IF 1.397.

 

[14]. Does evidence on regional convergence depend on the estimation strategy ? Results from a sample of  NUTS-2 European regions, 1977-2000. (with Le Gallo, J. and Piras, G), Spatial Economic Analysis, 3, 2, 209-224, June, 2008. IF 0.944

 

[15]. A class of spatial econometric methods in the empirical analysis of clusters of firms in space, (with Espa, G. e Quah, D.), Empirical Economics, 34, 1, 81-103, 2008. IF 0.714

 

[16] Nonlinear Regional Economic Dynamics: Continuous-Time Specification, Estimation and Stability Analysis (with Piras G. and Donaghy K.)Journal of Geographical Systems, 9, 4, 311-344, 2007. IF 1.278.

 

[17]. Spatial Sampling Plans to Monitor the 3-D Spatial Distribution of Extremes in Soil Pollution Surveys  (with Lafratta G., Simeoni C), Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 51 ,8, 4069-4082, 2007 IF 1.228