**About the Editors**

**Mauro Bernardi** is a senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Statistical Sciences at University of Padova. His research focuses on Bayesian statistics, risk measures and time series analysis. He has published in several leading academic journals.

**Stefano Grassi** is an Associate Professor of Economic Statistics at the Faculty of Economics at University of Rome 'Tor Vergata'. His research focuses on Bayesian econometrics, financial econometrics and macroeconometrics. He has published in several leading academic journals.

**Francesco Ravazzolo** is a Full Professor of Econometrics at the Faculty of Economics and Management, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, and a Visiting Professor at Center for Applied Macro and Commodity Prices, BI Norwegian Business School. His research focuses on Bayesian econometrics, energy economics, financial econometrics and macroeconometrics. He has published in several leading academic journals. Francesco has several academic roles: he is on the Editorial Boards of the following journals: *Annals of Applied Statistics*; *International Journal of Forecasting*; *Journal of Applied Econometrics*; *Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics*. He is also a member of the executive committee of the Society of Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics and of the steering committee of the Italian Econometric Association.
