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  General Information 
  ESOBE Mailing List 
  ESOBE Board 
  ESOBE's Founder 
  Past Meetings 
 
 MEETINGS
 
  ESOBE 2026 Rome 
  ESOBE 2025 Melbourne 
  ESOBE 2024 Örebro 
  ESOBE 2023 Glasgow 
  ESOBE 2022 Salzburg 
  ESOBE 2021 Madrid 
  ESOBE 2020 (pp'd) 
  ESOBE 2019 S Andrews 
  ESOBE 2018 N Orleans 
  ESOBE 2017 Maastricht 
  ESOBE 2016 Venice 
  ESOBE 2015 Gerzensee 
  ESOBE 2014 Cergy 
  ESOBE 2013 Oslo 
  ESOBE 2012 Vienna 
  ESOBE 2011 Brussels 
  ESOBE 2010 Rotterdam 
  
 Last modified:
 October 11, 2025 (gk)
 
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|   | Herman K. van Dijk, the founder of the European Seminar on Bayesian Econometrics
(ESOBE) and a founding member of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis
(ISBA), passed away on 24 January 2025 at the age of 79. 
 Please find his obituary here.
 |  General InformationESOBE stands for European Seminar on Bayesian Econometrics.
In recent decades Bayesian econometrics has expanded enormously in areas such as optimal processing of information from different sources, efficient forecasting using sets of models, and measuring policy effectiveness and its associated risk.
 The computational revolution in simulation techniques is a key ingredient in this expansion. Empirical applications of Bayesian econometrics deal with issues such as: risk management in international and financial markets, the education effect on income and individual entrepreneurship, measurement of policy effectiveness in the macro and monetary economy and individual decision making in marketing.
 
 The ESOBE meetings have no particular theme but are intended as a discussion forum for new and recent research. Their aim is to bring together researchers and professionals interested in the application of Bayesian inference in economics in relatively small annual workshops that usually take two days.
 
 
 A moderated, low-frequency mailing list related to Bayesian econometrics and the application of Bayesian statistics in economics, finance, and business has been created. Please go here for more information!
 
 
 
 ESOBE BoardSylvia Kaufmann
(chair)Study Center Gerzensee
 
 Roberto Casarin (co-chair)
 University Ca' Foscari of Venice
 Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter
(co-chair)
 WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
 Gregor Kastner (co-chair)
 University of Klagenfurt
 Gary Koop
(co-chair)
 University of Strathclyde
 
 M. Concepción Ausín (member)
 Universidad Carlos III Madrid
 Nalan Bastürk (member)
 Maastricht University
 Annika Camehl (member)
 Erasmus University Rotterdam
 Matteo Iacopini (member)
 Luiss University Rome
 Sune Karlsson (member)
 Örebro University
 Dimitris Korobilis (member)
 University of Glasgow
 
 
 FounderHerman K. van Dijk
(†2025)Obituary
 
 
 Past meetingsESOBE 2025 AustraliaUniversity of Melbourne
 August 26th and 27th, 2025
 Local organizers: Jamie Cross, Liana Jacobi, Ole Maneesoonthorn, Michael Smith, Yong Song, Rodney Strachan, 
Sam Tsiaplias, Tomasz Wozniak
 
 ESOBE 2024 Sweden
 University of Örebro
 August 22nd and 23rd, 2024
 Local organizers: Sune Karlsson, Stepan Mazur, and Aubrey Poon
 
 ESOBE 2023 Scotland
 University of Glasgow
 September 1st and 2nd, 2023
 Local organizer: Dimitris Korobilis
 
 ESOBE 2022 Austria
 University of Salzburg
 September 8th and 9th, 2022
 Local organizers: Niko Hauzenberger, Paul Hofmarcher, Florian Huber, and Michael Pfarrhofer
 
 ESOBE 2021 Spain
 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
 September 2nd and 3rd, 2021
 Local organizer: Conchi Ausin Olivera
 
 ESOBE 2019 Scotland
 University of St Andrews
 September 2nd and 3rd, 2019
 Local organizers: Dimitris Korobilis and Katerina Petrova
 
 ESOBE 2018 USA
 The New Orleans Branch of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank
 October 11th and 12th, 2018
 Program chair: Mark Jensen
 
 ESOBE 2017 The Netherlands
 Maastricht University
 October 26th and 27th, 2017
 Program chairs: Nalan Basturk and Peter Schotman
 
 ESOBE 2016 Italy
 Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
 October 27th and 28th, 2016
 
 ESOBE 2015 Switzerland
 Study Center Gerzensee
 October 29th and 30th, 2015
 Program chair: Sylvia Kaufmann
 
 ESOBE 2014 France
 ESSEC La Defense
 November 6th and 7th, 2014
 Program chairs: Jeroen Rombouts and Andras Fulop
 
 ESOBE 2013 Norway
 Norges Bank
 August 22th and 23rd, 2013
 Program chairs: Herman K. van Dijk and Francesco Ravazzolo
 
 ESOBE 2012 Austria
 WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
 November 1st and 2nd, 2012
 Program chair: Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter
 
 ESOBE 2011 Belgium
 Université Catholique de Louvain
 Program chair: Luc Bauwens
 
 ESOBE 2010 The Netherlands
 Econometric and Tinbergen Institutes
 Erasmus University Rotterdam
 Program chairs: Richard Paap and Dennis Fok
 
 
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