The topic of the 5th Advanced Summer School was on "Semiparametric and Nonparametric Econometrics".
Professor Jeffrey S. Racine (McMaster University, Department of Economics) was the Distinguished Guest Professor.
The course initially examined the basic kernel density estimator and then moved on to frontier developments in the field. All throughout the course, applications of the methods were emphasized and the R package was utilized for data analysis (http://www.R-project.org).