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Helsinki Graduate School of Economics
Helsinki GSE is an academic initiative bringing together three Finnish universities – Aalto University, Hanken School of Economics, and University of Helsinki. We are building on and extending the cooperation between our departments and third-parties.
Research Master’s Track in Economics
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Recent News
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Essays in Economics of Unemployment
Heikki Korpela will defend his doctoral dissertation “Essays in Economics of Unemployment” on December 4th, 2025. The discussion will be in Finnish.
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Transformer Network for Macroeconometric Analysis
Oliver Snellman will defend his doctoral dissertation “Transformer Network for Macroeconometric Analysis” on November 27th, 2025.
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Essays on microeconomic prediction problems : with applications to firm growth and public procurement
Joosua Virtanen will defend his doctoral dissertation “Essays on microeconomic prediction problems: with applications to firm growth and public procurement” on November 26th, 2025.
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Essays on Beliefs, Incentives, and Financial Behavior
Jussipekka Salo will defend his doctoral dissertation “Essays on Beliefs, Incentives, and Financial Behavior” on November 14th, 2025.
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Essays on non-Gaussian structural vector autoregressions
Keyan Liu will defend his doctoral dissertation “Essays on non-Gaussian structural vector autoregressions” on October 3rd, 2025.
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Upcoming events
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Daniel Bougt
Hanken and Helsinki GSE
Ambiguity and the declining price anomaly: estimation of a sequental auction model
- Hanken
- Job Talk
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Carolina Kansikas
University of Warwick
Carbon and Coordination: Incentives and local institutions in conservation policy
- Aalto University
- Job Talk
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Cyril Rouault
École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay
Job Matching and Affirmative Action: The Impact of Transfer Policies
- Aalto University
- Job Talk
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Nicole Scholz
University of Warwick
Estimating Multi-Product Production Functions: What Can We Learn Without Demand Assumptions?
- Hanken
- Job Talk
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Kensuke Sakamoto
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Network Robust Inference for Fixed-Effect Regressions
- Aalto University
- Job Talk
Latest research
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Markets, Contracts, and Hierarchies: How Bargaining Frictions Affect Governance
Tore Ellingsen and Topi Miettinen
We develop an organizational governance model with a single buyer and endogenous upstream entry. Investments and control rights over assets and actions are immediately contractable; production is …
Discussion paper
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Life-cycle effects of public childcare: Evidence on children and their parents
Mikko Silliman and Juuso Mäkinen
This paper provides large-scale evidence linking the economic effects of childcare programs to social skills measured in adulthood. We examine Finland’s first national public childcare program, and …
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Hot Hands or Cold Bots? Belief Reactions to Sequential Predictions from AI, Humans, and Random Sources
Theo Herold, Marco Lambrecht, and Erik Wengström
People often draw inferences from sequences of past performance, sometimes perceiving patterns even in random outcomes. This has fueled debates regarding phenomena such as the hot hand and gambler’s …
Discussion paper
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Why Are There So Few Female Inventors?
Atte Pudas
Only a small fraction of inventors are women. Using Finnish administrative data linked to patent records, I show that educational and occupational sorting explain roughly 54% of the gender gap in …
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