The Department of Economics and Research Institute for Econometrics (RIE) Are happy to announce the opening of a new Mini-Course In the academic year 2014-2015 Entitled Recent Developments in Econometrics: Computational Methods and Nonparametric MLE By Prof. Yuichi Kitamura Department of Economics, Yale University Course Number: 66-955-01 Academic points: 1 Semester hour (0.5 annual hour) Syllabus: MCMC; Particle Filter and Other Computational Methods; Empirical Likelihood; Nonparametric Bayes. Location: Building 504, Seminar Room (011). Dates and hours: Thursday, November 20th, 2014; 16:00-20:00 Sunday, November 23rd, 2014; 09:00-13:00 Tuesday, November 25th, 2014; 16:00-20:00 The course is open to all M.A students, Ph.D. students, staff members and researchers. Registration and enquiries can be made during the period 2/11/2014 – 20/11/2014 at the following email address: [email protected]. Tel: 03 531 8345/6 :‫ טל‬ Fax: 03 738 4034 :‫ פקס‬ [email protected]  http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/ec/ Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel • www.biu.ac.il • ‫ ישראל‬, 52900 ‫ רמת גן‬,‫ אילן‬-‫אוניברסיטת בר‬