Luc Bauwens is currently Professor of Economics at the Université catholique de Louvain, where he has been co-director of the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) from 1992 to 1998. He has previously been a lecturer at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France, at Facultés universitaires catholiques de Mons (FUCAM), Belgium, and a consultant at the World Bank, Washington DC. His research interests cover Bayesian inference, time series methods, simulation and numerical methods in econometrics, as well as empirical finance and international trade.Michel Lubrano is Directeur de Recherche at CNRS, part of GREQAM in Marseille.Jean-François Richard is University Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh.

• Chapter 1: Decision Theory and Bayesian Inference ; Chapter 2: Bayesian Statistics and Linear Regression ; Chapter 3: Methods of Numerical Integration ; Chapter 4: Prior Densities for the Regression Model ; Chapter 5: Dynamic Regression Models ; Chapter 6: Bayesian Unit Roots ; Chapter 7: Heteroskedasticity and ARCH ; Chapter 8: Nonlinear Tome Series Models ; Chapter 9: Systems of Equations ; Appendix A: Probability Distributions ; Appendix B: Generating Random Numbers

it can serve as a useful textbook for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses in either time series analysis or econometrics.