Includes bibliographical references and index.

An interview with Dale Poirier / Ivan Jeliazkov, Dale J. Poirier and Justin L. Tobias -- Macroeconomic nowcasting using Google probabilities / Gary Koop and Luca Onorante -- Sentiment-based overlapping community discovery / Fulya Ozcan -- Violence in the decond intifada : a demonstration of Bayesian generative cognitive modeling / Percy Mistry and Michael D. Lee -- A Bayesian model for activation and connectivity in task-related fMRI data / Zhe Yu, Raquel Prado, Steve C. Cramer, Erin B. Quinlan and Hernando Ombao -- Robust estimation of ARMA models with near root cancellation / Timothy Cogley and Richard Startz -- A simple efficient moment-based estimator for the stochastic volatility model / Md. Nazmul Ahsan and Jean-Marie Dufour -- A new approach to modeling endogenous gain learning / Eric Gaus and Srikanth Ramamurthy -- How sensitive are VAR forecasts to prior hyperparameters? an automated sensitivity analysis / Joshua C.C. Chan, Liana Jacobi and Dan Zhu -- Stein-like shrinkage estimation of panel data models with common correlated effects / Bai Huang, Tae-Hwy Lee and Aman Ullah -- Predictive testing for granger causality via posterior simulation and cross validation / Gary J. Cornwall, Jeffrey A. Mills, Beau A. Sauley and Huibin Weng -- New evidence on the effect of compulsory schooling laws / Theodore F. Figinski, Alicia Lloro and Phillip Li.

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