1. Introduction: Recent work by Schennach(2005) has opened the way to a Bayesian treatment of quantile regression. Her method, called Bayesian exponentially tilted empirical likelihood (BETEL), provides a likelihood for data y subject only to a set of m moment conditions of the form Eg(y, θ) = 0 where θ is a k dimensional parameter of interest and k may be smaller, equal to or larger than m. Th...