Gordon Myers joined the Department of Economics at SFU in 1999. He received his B.A. from Queens University and his MA and Ph.D. from McMaster University (1990). Before joining SFU, he was an assistant professor at the University of Western Ontario and an associate professor at the University of Waterloo. He has been an academic visitor at the University of Essex (England) and the University of Bonn (Germany).

Prof. Myers' main teaching areas are public economics and microeconomics. His research interests have mainly focused on issues in federalism including population migration, inter-regional transfers, capital tax competition, and the formation of federations. More recently his interests have broadened to include the transition from foraging to agriculture and self-esteem in labour markets.

Publications include:

• "On the Mesolithic: From Foraging to Early Agriculture" (with N. Marceau) forthcoming at the Economic Journal.
• “Redistribution, Fiscal Competition and the Politics of Economic Integration” (with A. S. Kessler, C. Lulfesmann), Review of Economic Studies, 2002.
• "A Coalition Formation Approach To Equilibrium Federations and Trading Blocs" (with J. Burbidge, J. DePater. and A. Sengupta), American Economic Review, 1997.
• "Rational Choice under an Imperfect Ability Choose" (with A. DePalma and Y. Papageorgiou), American Economic Review, 1994.