Principal Investigator Mario Peruggia (Ohio State statistics) and co-investigators Steve MacEachern (Ohio State statistics) and Catherine Forbes (Monash University, econometrics and business statistics; Ohio State alumna) were awarded $540,000 for the project “Bayesian empirical likelihood:  Data analysis tools with applications in econometrics.”  This project explores the use of Bayesian methods for models that are only partially specified, as are many economic models.