Big Data, Networks, and Structural Modelling

PEGNet and the African School of Economics organized a summer school on Big Data, Networks, and Structural Modelling. The summer school was held on October 15 and 16 at the African School of Economics Campus in Abomey-Calavi, Benin.

The summer school was attended by over 40 graduate students and pre-doctoral fellows enrolled at the African School of Economics. It consisted of lectures on Structural Modeling, Big Data Analysis in Economics, and on Institutions and Networks that were given by Modibo Sidibe (Duke University), Tobias Stoehr (Kiel Institute for the World Economy), Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton University and the African School of Economics) and Daniel Ahelegbey (African School of Economics) respectively.