Dear Colleagues,

The Italian Econometric Association (SIdE-IEA, https://www.side-iea.it/), in collaboration with the Venice Centre in Economic and Risk Analytics for Public Policies (VERA, https://www.unive.it/vera) at the Department of Economics, organizes the course for PhD students in:

Bayesian Methods in Economics and Finance, 25  - 29 August 2025, Università Ca' Foscari  Venezia
https://www.side-iea.it/events/courses/bayesian-methods-economics-and-finance-2025
The summer school aims to introduce participants to Bayesian Inference, starting with first principles and covering topics of interest to applied econometricians in economics and finance. The course is addressed to students without previous knowledge of Bayesian Statistics and Econometrics. The methods introduced in the lectures will be illustrated with hands-on applications in MATLAB and R based on reasoned statistical and economic examples.

Participation: Online or in person

Application Deadline: 18th May

Intermediate knowledge of statistical inference (Note that preliminary knowledge of Bayesian inference is not required)

Best Regards