This workshop brings together scholars from different disciplines, countries, and academic systems who share an interest in pushing forward theoretical and/or empirical frontiers of institutional research.

General theme: Knowledge about assembling and reassembling organizations is now more important than ever. In the light of the current economic crisis, globalization, sustainable futures, financial regulation and social welfare are issues of immense importance for the second decade of this...

State space models are a powerful tool to tackle difficult inference and forecasting problems common in economic and financial series. Given the emphasis placed on forecasting and nowcasting in modern central banks and other financial institutions, state space models seem a much under-utilized...

The aim of this workshop is to discuss recent advances in Bayesian econometric methodology and their applications. We are interested in newly developed inferential tools, as well as empirical applications where existing methods are used in a novel way. Papers which compare different Bayesian...