Challenges and Opportunities for Twenty First Century Bayesian Econometricians: A Personal View

Herman van Dijk

Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, 2024, vol. 28, issue 2, 155-176

Abstract: This essay is about Bayesian econometrics with a purpose. Specifically, six societal challenges and research opportunities that confront twenty first century Bayesian econometricians are discussed using an important feature of modern Bayesian econometrics: conditional probabilities of a wide range of economic events of interest can be evaluated by using simulation-based Bayesian inference. The enormous advances in hardware and software have made this Bayesian computational approach a very attractive vehicle of research in many subfields in economics where novel data patterns and substantial model complexity are predominant. In this essay the following challenges and opportunities are briefly discussed, including the scientific results obtained in the twentieth century leading up to these challenges: Posterior and predictive analysis of everything: connecting micro-economic causality with macro-economic issues; the need for speed: model complexity and the golden age of algorithms; learning about models, forecasts and policies including their uncertainty; temporal distributional change due to polarisation, imbalances and shocks; climate change and the macroeconomy; finally and most importantly, widespread, accessible, advanced high-level training.

Keywords: Bayesian econometrics; research opportunities; forecasting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C01 C11 C15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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