The aim of the workshop is twofold: first, we want to give junior researchers an opportunity to present their research project and receive feedback from senior reviewers and from the audience of the workshop. Second, we want to provide a natural prosecution to the introductory and advanced...

Recent years have seen a massive increase in the availability of large data sets. In this course we will cover some of the techniques that have been developed to analyze such data sets. Particular attention will be given to precise estimation, variable selection, and hypothesis testing. We will...

Course outline: 1. Overview of Bayesian econometrics: Bayesian theory and computations 2. Linear regressions: Gaussian and t errors, moving average errors, independence-chain Metropolis-Hastings, Griddy-Gibbs 3. Mixture models: scale mixture of normals, finite mixture of normals 4. Linear state...