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-financ... 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 *Coordinator*Gaetano Carmeci <https://www.units.it/persone/index.php/from/abook/persona/4715>, University of Trieste *Lecturers* Gaetano Carmeci <https://www.units.it/persone/index.php/from/abook/persona/4715>, University of Trieste Roberto Casarin <https://www.unive.it/data/persone/5589863>, University of Venice, Italy Ca' Foscari Matteo Ciccarelli <https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/research/authors/profiles/matteo-ciccarelli.en.html>, European Central Bank, DG Economics, Head of Forecasting and Policy Modelling Division Federico Bassetti <https://www4.ceda.polimi.it/manifesti/manifesti/controller/ricerche/RicercaPerDocentiPublic.do?EVN_DIDATTICA=evento&k_doc=594222&lang=EN&aa=2020&tab_ricerca=1>, Politecnico di Milano *Requirements* Intermediate knowledge of statistical inference (Note that preliminary knowledge of Bayesian inference is not required) Best Regards Roberto Casarin -- Roberto Casarin, PhD Professor of Econometrics Ca' Foscari University of Venice San Giobbe 873/b - 30121 Venezia, Italy http://sites.google.com/view/robertocasarin/ https://www.unive.it/vera <https://www.unive.it/isba2024> https://www.unive.it/isba2024