The Oxford Handbook of Bayesian Econometrics

Author: John Geweke; Gary Koop; Herman van Dijk
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199559084
Published In: September 2011
Format: Hardback , 576 pages
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Contributions from prominent Bayesians on the latest developments in their specific fields of expertise
Covers a broad range of the methods and models used by Bayesian econometricians in a wide variety of fields, including macroeconomics, microeconomics, finance and marketing
Bridges the gap from textbook to research and helps facilitate empirical work
Many chapters include flexible or nonparametric models
Organised into three parts: principles, methods, and applications

Bayesian econometric methods have enjoyed an increase in popularity in recent years. Econometricians, empirical economists, and policymakers are increasingly making use of Bayesian methods. This handbook is a single source for researchers and policymakers wanting to learn about Bayesian methods in specialized fields, and for graduate students seeking to make the final step from textbook learning to the research frontier. It contains contributions by leading Bayesians on the latest developments in their specific fields of expertise. The volume provides broad coverage of the application of Bayesian econometrics in the major fields of economics and related disciplines, including macroeconomics, microeconomics, finance, and marketing. It reviews the state of the art in Bayesian econometric methodology, with chapters on posterior simulation and Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, Bayesian nonparametric techniques, and the specialized tools used by Bayesian time series econometricians such as state space models and particle filtering. It also includes chapters on Bayesian principles and methodology.

Readership: Econometricians, empirical economists, policymakers, researchers and graduate students.

John Geweke, Gary Koop, and Herman van Dijk: Introduction
Part I: Principles
1: Gary Chamberlain: Bayesian Aspects of Treatment Choice
2: Dale Poirier: Exchangeability, Representation Theorems, and Subjectivity
Part II: Methods
3: Paolo Giordani, Michael Pitt, and Robert Kohn: Bayesian Inference for Time Series State Space Models
4: Jim Griffin, Fernando Quintana, and Mark Steel: Flexible and Nonparametric Modelling
5: Siddhartha Chib: Introduction to Simulation and MCMC Methods
Part III: Applications
6: Mingliang Li and Justin Tobias: Bayesian Methods in Microeconometrics
7: Marco Del Negro and Frank Schorfheide: Bayesian Macroeconometrics
8: Peter Rossi and Greg Allenby: Bayesian Applications in Marketing
9: Eric Jacquier and Nicholas Polson: Bayesian Econometrics in Finance

Edited by John Geweke, Distinguished Research Professor, University of Technology Sydney; Research Professor, University of Colorado, Gary Koop, Professor of Economics, University of Strathclyde, and Herman van Dijk, Director of Tinbergen Institute and Professor of Econometrics at Econometric Institute, Erasmus University, Rotterdam

John Geweke received his PhD in economics from the University of Minnesota. He has been Professor of economics/ statistics at the University of Wisconsin, Duke University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Iowa. He is co-editor of Journal of Econometrics, past co-editor of Journal of Applied Econometrics, and past editor of Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. He has published widely in econometrics and statistics, with major contributions to the analysis of time series and Bayesian econometrics. Professor Geweke is an elected fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Statistical Association and a past President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis.

Gary Koop has published numerous articles in Bayesian econometrics and statistics in journals such as Journal of Econometrics, Journal of the American Statistical Association and the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. He is an associate editor for several journals, including Journal of Econometrics and Journal of Applied Econometrics. He is the author of Bayesian Econometrics, Bayesian Econometric Methods, Introduction to Econometrics, Analysis of Economic Data, and Analysis of Financial Data.

Herman van Dijk received the Savage Prize for his PhD dissertation. His research interests are in Bayesian inference using simulation techniques, time series econometrics, and income distributions. He serves on the Editorial Board of major journals in econometrics. His publications consist of several books and more than 160 international scientific journal papers and reports.

Contributors:
Greg Allenby, Ohio State University
Gary Chamberlain, Harvard University
Siddhartha Chib, Washington University in St Louis
Marco Del Negro, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
John Geweke, University of Technology Sydney
Paolo Giordani, Swedish Central Bank.
Jim Griffin, University of Kent
Eric Jacquier, HEC Montreal
Robert Kohn, University of New South Wales
Gary Koop, University of Strathclyde
Mingliang Li, State University of New York at Buffalo
Michael Pitt, University of Warwick
Dale J. Poirier, University of California, Irvine
Nicholas G. Polson, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Fernando Pontificia, Universidad Católica de Chile
Peter E. Rossi, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Frank Schorfheide, University of Pennsylvania
Mark F.J. Steel, University of Warwick
Justin Tobias, Purdue University
Herman van Dijk, Erasmus University Rotterdam