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Graduate Mini Course
Every year, a visiting professor is invited to the SFU Burnaby campus to teach a short course on a specialized subject in their field of expertise. It is a unique opportunity for graduate students to learn from some of the world's top scholars.
NOT CURRENTLY OFFERED
The Gradduate Mini Course will not be offered in 2026. Please check back for updates.
Past mini courses
2024 - Myra A. Yazbeck, University of Ottawa
"SELECTED TOPICS IN HEALTH ECONOMICS"
2023 - David Andolfatto, Miami Herbert Business School
"MONETARY THEORY AND POLICY"
2022 - Colin Cameron, University of California - Davis
"MACHINE LEARNING FOR MICROECONOMETRICS"
Slides and materials:
http://cameron.econ.ucdavis.edu/sfu2022/
2019 - Ian Crawford (University of Oxford)
"Empirical Revealed Preference"
2018 - Arthur Lewbel (Boston College)
"The Identification Zoom - Meanings of Identification in Econometrics"
2016 - Randall Wright (University of Wisconsin)
"Liquidity: A New Monetarist Perspective"
2015 - Robert Feenstra (UC Davis)
"International Economics and Trade"
2014 - David Figlio (Northwestern University)
2012 - Jeff Smith (University of Michigan)
2010 - Arthur Lewbel (Boston College)
"Nonparametrics for Noneconometricians"
2009 - Klaus Schmidt (University of Munich)
2009 - Kevin Milligan (UBC)
2008 - John Abowd (Cornell University)
2007 - Randall Wright (University of Pennsylvania)
2006 - Randall Wright (University of Pennsylvania)