The 2012 SEA World Conference plans to explore empirical, theoretical and methodological themes, including:

• Economic growth and convergence
• Human capital
• Inequality
• Knowledge diffusion
• Agglomeration of economic activity
• Foreign direct investment
• Labor markets and migration
• Education and migration
• Environment and sustainability
• Externalities and spillovers
• Flows of goods, people and ideas
• Land use, real estate, and housing markets
• Exploratory spatial data analysis
• Spatial regression models
• GMM estimators for spatial models
• Spatial panel data models
• Continuous-time spatial econometrics
• Space-time aggregation
• Spatial and social network effects
• Spatial filtering