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ESOBE
General Information
ESOBE Board
Meetings
MEETINGS
ESOBE 2012 Austria
ESOBE 2011 Belgium
ESOBE 2010 Rotterdam
 Latest update: April 3rd, 2012
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General Information
ESOBE stands for European Seminar on Bayesian Econometrics. This series of seminars was launched in 2010 with the first meeting in Rotterdam. In recent decades Bayesian econometrics has expanded enormously in areas such as optimal processing of information from different sources, efficient forecasting using sets of models, and measuring policy effectiveness and its associated risk.
The computational revolution in simulation techniques is a key ingredient in this expansion. Empirical applications of Bayesian econometrics deal with issues such as: risk management in international and financial markets, the education effect on income and individual entrepreneurship, measurement of policy effectiveness in the macro and monetary economy and individual decision making in marketing.
The ESOBE meetings have no particular theme but are intended as a discussion forum for new and recent research. Their aim is to bring together researchers and professionals interested in the application of Bayesian inference in economics in relatively small annual workshops that usually take two days.
ESOBE Board
Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter
Vienna University of Economics and Business
(co-chairperson)
Gary Koop
University of Strathclyde
(co-chairperson)
Herman K. van Dijk
Erasmus University Rotterdam
(co-chairperson)
Luc Bauwens
Université Catholique de Louvain
Fabio Cannova
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Mark Steel
University of Warwick
Mattias Villani
Linköping University
Future meetings
ESOBE 2012 Austria
Vienna University of Economics and Business
Dates: November 1st and 2nd, 2012
Program chair: Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter
ESOBE 2013 Sweden
Sveriges Riksbank
Program chair: Mattias Villani
ESOBE 2014
Location to be announced
Program chair: Gary Koop
Past meetings
ESOBE 2010 Netherlands
Econometric and Tinbergen Institutes
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Program chairs: Richard Paap and Dennis Fok
ESOBE 2011 Belgium
Université Catholique de Louvain
Program chair: Luc Bauwens
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