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This summer Cristina Amado, João Cerejeira , Luís Aguiar-Conraria, Miguel Portela, Priscila Ferreira and I will be teaching at the UMinho-Exec Summer School in Data Analysis. The event will run from Monday, August 31, until Friday, September 11, at the School of Economics and Management, Braga, Portugal. The event is composed of a selected set of intensive courses, designed to enhance methodological skills in data analysis on Regression and Causality, Panel Data, Survival Analysis, Wavelet Analysis, Downside Risk Measures, Financial Risk Management and Financial Market Volatility. Introductory courses to statistical packages Stata and R are also available.

You can find more about the instructors of the courses:

• Cristina Amado (PhD at Stockholm School of Economics)
• João Cerejeira (PhD at European University Institute)
• Luís Aguiar-Conraria (PhD at Cornell University)
• Miguel Portela (PhD at Tinbergen Institute)
• Nelson Areal (PhD at Lancaster University)
• Priscila Ferreira (PhD at University of Essex – ISER)

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