Past special courses
2016
Macroeconomics of Labour Markets (SMA16)
- Time: January 20-26, 2016
- Instructor: Associate Professor Johanna Wallenius (Stockholm School of Economics)
2015
Macroeconomics II (SMA15)
- Time: May 4-8, 2015
- Instructor: Professor Kristoffer Nimark (Cornell University)
Macroeconomics III: Solving Non-linear Models in Economics (SMA315)
- Time: May 25 - June 12, 2015
- Instructor: Niku Määttänen, PhD (Aalto University and ETLA)
Health Economics (SHE15)
- Time: June 8-12, 2015
- Instructor: Professo Ching-to Albert Ma (Boston University)
2014
Microeconomics II: Computational Mechanism Design (SMI14)
- Time: March 10-26, 2014
- Instructor: Professor Rann Smorodinsky (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology)
Industrial Organization II: The Econometrics of Demand Estimation (SIO14)
- Time: June 9-13, 2014
- Instructor: Professor Pasquale Schiraldi (London School of Economics)
Labour Economics II (SLE14)
- Time: August 25-29, 2014
- Instructor:Professor Jan van Ours (Tilburg University)
2013
Microeconomics II (SMI13)
- Time: January 21-25, 2013
- Instructor: Professor Andrea Galeotti (University of Essex)
Industrial Organization II: Markets with Asymmetric Information (SIO13)
- Time: March 25-28, 2013
- Instructor: Professor Liran Einav (Stanford University)
Macroeconomics II (SMA13)
- Time: April 22-26, 2013
- Instructor: Professor Pieter Gautier (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Econometrics II: The Econometrics of Dynamic Games Oligopoly Competition (SE13)
- Time: May 19-23, 2013
- Instructor: Professor Victor Aguirregabiria (University of Toronto)
2012
Labour Economics II (SLE12)
- Time: March 5-9, 2012
- Instructor: Professor Christopher Taber (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Bayesian Econometrics (SBE12)
- Time: May 21–25, 2012
- Instructors: Professor Herman van Dijk (Econometric Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Econometrics Department VU University Amsterdam) with assistance from Dr Nalan Basturk (Econometric Institute, Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Macroeconomics II (SMA12)
- Time: September 24-28, 2012
- Instructor: Professor Evi Pappa (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Development Economics II (SDE12)
- Time: October 1-5, 2012
- Instructor: Professor Jean Marie Baland (University of Namur)
2011
Macroeconomics II: Structural Macroecometrics (SMA11)
- Time: May 9-25
- Instructor: Professor Antti Ripatti (University of Helsinki)
Empirical Industrial Organization II (SEIO11)
- Time: June 6-10
- Instructor: Professor Jaap Abbring (Tilburg University)
Public Economics II (SPE11)
- Time: August 22-26
- Instructor: Professor Bas Jacobs (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
2010
International Trade II (SIT10)
- Time: May 17-20
- Instructor: Professor Steven Yeaple (Pennsylvania State University)
Applied Econometrics II (SAE10)
- Time: June 14-18
- Instructor: Professor Victor Chernozhukov (MIT)
Macroeconomics II (SMA10)
- Time: August 9-13
- Instructor: Dr Kjetil Storesletten (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
Labour Economics II (SLE10)
- Time: August 23-27
- Instructor: Professor David Autor (MIT)
2009
Empirical Industrial Organization II (ER109)
- Time: June 8-12, 2009
- Instructor: Associate Professor Daniel Ackerberg (UCLA)
Introduction to Empirical Macroeconomics (ER209)
- Time: June 1-6, 2009
- Instructor: Dr Dean Croushore (University of Richmond and Federal Reserve Philadelphia)
Public Economics II (ER309)
- Time: August 17-21, 2009
- Instructor: Professor Wojciech Kopczuk (Columbia University)
Microeconomic Theory I & II (ER409)
- Time: December 7-18, 2009
- Instructors: Professor Dirk Bergemann (Yale University) and Professor Juuso Välimäki (Aalto University School of Economics)
2008
Econometrics of Policy Evaluation (ER108)
- Time: May 12-16, 2008
- Instructor: Professor Edwar Vytlacil (Yale University)
International Trade (ER208)
- Time: May 26-30, 2008
- Instructor: Professor James Markusen (University of Colorado)
Topics in Contemporary Macroeconomics (ER308)
- Time: August 11-15, 2008
- Instructor: Associate Professor Paul Klein (University of Western Ontario)
2007
Applied Microeconomics with Focus on Censored Models (ER107)
- The course was jointly organized by University of Helsinki: Department of Economics and Management (Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry), MTT Agrifood Research Finland and the Finnish Doctoral Programme in Economics (FDPE)
- Time: June 4-8, 2007
- Instructor: Professor Jeffrey M. Wooldridge (Michigan State University)
Applied Industrial Organization II/Estimation of Dynamic Structural Models (ER207)
- Time: June 25-29, 2007
- Instructor: Professor Victor Aguirregabiria (University of Toronto)
Bounded Rationality/Topics in Psychology and Economics (ER307)
- Time: September 3-7, 2007
- Instructor: Professor Ran Spiegler (UCL)
2006
Health Economics (ER106)
- Time: May 15-19, 2006
- Instructor: Professor Ching-To Albert Ma (Boston University)
Resource Economics (ER406)
- Time: May 15-19, 2006
- Instructor: Professor Jon Conrad (Cornell University)
Dynamic Macroeconomics (ER306)
- Time: June 5-9, 2006
- Instructor: Professor Randall Wright (University of Pennsylvania)
Technology and Trade (ER206)
- Time: June 12-16, 2006
- Instructor: Professor Jonathan Eaton (NYU)
Economics of Competition Policy (ER506)
- Time: October 23-27, 2006
- Instructor: Professor Patrick Rey (University of Toulouse I)
2005
Economics of Education (ER305)
- Time: April 18-22, 2005
- Instructor:Professor Christopher R. Taber (Northwestern University)
Empirical Industrial Organization (ER105)
- Time: May 23-27, 2005
- Instructor: Professor Ariel Pakes (Harvard University)
Auctions: Theory and Empirical Analysis (ER205)
- Time: June 13-17, 2005
- Instructor: Professor Harry J. Paarsch (University of Iowa)
Evaluation Methods in Development Economics (ER405)
- Time: June 16-20, 2005
- Instructor: Professor Rohini Pande (Yale University)
2004
Environmental Economics (ER104)
- Time: May 10-14, 2004
- Instructor: Professor Anastasios Xepapadeas (University of Crete)
Structural Estimation of Dynamic Models of Retirement from Labour Force (ER504)
- Time: May 24-28, 2004
- Instructor: Professor David M. Blau (University of North Carolina)
International Trade and Trade Policy (ER204)
- Time: May 31-June 4, 2004
- Instructor: Professor James E. Anderson (Boston College)
Law and Economics (ER404)
- Time: August 2-6, 2004
- Instructor: Professor Winand Emons (University of Bern)
Monetary Theory and Policy (ER304)
- Time: August 9-13, 2004
- Instructor: Professor Carl Walsh (University of California, Santa Cruz)
2003
Contract Theory (ER203)
- Time: June 9-13, 2003
- Instructor: Professor Mathias Dewatripont (ECARES, ULB)
Financial Crises (ER303)
- Time: August 25-29, 2003
- Instructor: Professor Roberto Chang (Rutgers University)
Corporate Finance (ER403)
- Time: September 1-5, 2003
- Instructor: Professor Javier Suarez (CEMFI)
Empirical Economics of Network Industries (ER103)
- Time: November 24-28, 2003
- Instructor: Professor Neil Gandal (Tel Aviv University)
2002
Introduction to Health Economics
- Time: April 2-6, 2002
- Instructor: Dr Oddvar Kaarboe (University of Bergen)
Economics of Banking
- Time: April 15-18, 2002
- Instructor: Professor Jean-Charles Rochet (University of Toulouse)
European Unemployment
- Time: June 17-20, 2002
- Instructor: Professor Lars Ljungqvist (Stockholm School of Economics)
Open Economy Macroeconomics - an Emerging Market Perspective
- Time: June 24–28, 2002
- Professor Peter Montiel (Williams College)
Econometric Analysis of Panel Data
- Time: September 16–20, 2002
- Instructor: Professor Steve Bond (The Institute for Fiscal Studies/Nuffield College)
Topics in Applied Microeconometrics
- Time: October 28 - December 13, 2002
- Instructor: Professor Almas Heshmati (United Nations University, WIDER)
2001
Political Economy and Related Topics
- Time: June 25–29, 2001
- Instructor: Professor Allan Drazen (University of Maryland / University of Tel Aviv)
A Practical Introduction to Computational Methods for the Study of Dynamic Economies
- Time: July 30 - August 6, 2001
- Instructor: Professor Javier Díaz-Gimémez (University Carlos III)
Sociological Aspects in Economics
- Time: September 4-8, 2001
- Instructor: Professor Chaim Fershtman (Tel Aviv University)
Social Insurance, Income Taxation and Redistribution
- Time: September 17-21, 2001
- Instructor: Professor Pierre Pestieau (University of Liège)
2000
Empirical Industrial Organization
- Professor Margaret Slade (University of British Columbia)
Applied Dynamic Programming Models and Empirical Search Theory
- Professsor Nick Kiefer (Cornell University)
Topics in Repeated Games
- Professor Juuso Välimäki (University of Southampton)
Network Economics and Related Topics
- Professor Oz Shy (University of Haifa)
1999
Corporate contra Political Governance
- Professor Bengt Holmström (Massachusetts Institute of Technology/University of Helsinki)
Fiscal Federalism
- Professor Robin Boadway (Queens University)
Open Economy Macroeconomics
- Professor Matthew Canzoneri (Georgetown University)
Job Creation and Destruction
- Professor John C. Haltiwanger (University of Maryland)
Development Economics
- Professor Kaushik Basu (Cornell University)
1998
Auction Theory and its Applications to Economics (mini course)
- Professor Paul Klemperer (University of Oxford)
Macroeconomics and Finance: From Representative Firm to Incomplete Markets (mini course)
- Professor Philippe Weil (ECARE, Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Empirical Macroeconomics
- Professor Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University)
Personnel Economics
- Professor Edward Lazear (Stanford University)
Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
- Professor Lars Olson (University of Maryland)
1997
Political Economy and the Economics of Politics
- Professor Alberto Alesina (Harvard University)
Financial Intermediation
- Professor Martin Hellwig (University of Mannheim)
Privatization and Regulation
- Professor Dieter Bös (University of Bonn)
Empirical Public Economics
- Dr Ian Preston (University College London)
1996
Investment under Uncertainty
- Professor Avinash Dixit (Princeton University)
Law and Economics
- Professor Alvin K. Klevorick (Yale University)
Unemployment in Europe
- Professor Alan Manning (London School of Economics)
Econometrics Based on Microeconomic Data
- Professor Costas Meghir (University College London)
Macroeconomics with Imperfect Competition
- Professor Huw Dixon (University of York)
1995
Economics of Transition
- Professor Sweder van Wijnbergen (University of Amsterdam)
International Rules and Institutions for Trade Policy
- Professor Robert W. Staiger (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Econometrics: Unit Roots and Cointegration
- Professor David F. Hendry (University of Oxford)
Microfoundations for the Economics of Technology
- Professor Morton Kamien (Northwestern University)
Microeconomics of Labour Market
- Professor Bertil Holmlund (Uppsala University)
- Dr Per-Anders Edin (Uppsala University)
1994
Empirical Industrial Organization
- Professor John Sutton (London School of Economics)
Economics of the Welfare State
- Dr Vanessa Fry (University of Essex)
Regional Economic Dynamics and European Networks
- Professor Peter Nijkamp (Vrije Univesiteit, Amsterdam)
Economic Growth
- Professor Xavier Sala-i-Martin (Yale University)
Productivity and Efficiency Measurement
- Professor Robert G. Chambers (University of Maryland)
1993
Finance
- Professor S. Abraham Ravid (Rutgers University)
Game theory
- Professor Eric van Damme (Tilburg University)
Dynamic Models in Resource and Environmental Economics
- Professor Jon M. Conrad (Cornell University)
- Professor Seppo Salo (Helsinki School of Economics)
- Dr Olli Tahvonen (University of Oulu)
Public Expenditure and Efficiency
- Professor David Wildasin (University of Indiana)
Trade and Integration Theory
- Professor L. Alan Winters (University of Birmingham)
1992
Economics of Environment and Natural Resources
- Professor Partha Dasgupta (Universtiy of Cambridge)
- Professor Karl Göran Mäler (University of Stockholm)
Economics of Information
- Professor Bengt Holmström (Yale University)
Econometric Methods for Macroeconomics
- Professor Clive W. Granger (University of California)
Economics of Taxation and Tax Harmonization
- Professor Michael Keen (University of Essex)
1991
Econometrics for Microeconomic Data
- PhD Reija Lilja (Labour Institute for Economic Research)
- Dr Heikki Loikkanen (University of Helsinki)
Economics and Sociology of Firm, Organization and Industrial Relations
- Professor Joan E. Ricart i Costa (University of Navarra)
- Professor Antti Kasvio (University of Tampere)
- Professor Risto Tainio (Helsinki School of Economics)
New Keynesian Macroeconomics
- Professor Russell Cooper (Boston University)
Industrial Organization
- Dr Jonathan Haskel (London School of Economics)
Topics in Empirical Macroeconomics
- Dr Enrique Sentana (London School of Economics
1990
Open Economy Macroeconomics
- Professor Rudiger Dornbusch (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)