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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.
SUMMER 2025 - NOT OFFERED
The Gradduate Mini Course will not be offered in 2025. 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)