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Helsinki GSE offers a wide range of open access e-learning materials to start the journey of learning economics.
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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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The Research Master's Track is one of the study tracks in the Master's programs. It provides a high value-added education for students whose ambition is to obtain challenging and demanding expert positions.
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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Econometrics PhD workshop
Workshop for Helsinki GSE and FDPE PhD students
- Econometrics
- PhD Workshop
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Camilla Christensen
University of Copenhagen, CEBI and CenTax
The content of this event has not been announced yet. Please check back later.
- Labor & Public Economics
- Seminar
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Tuuli Tähtinen
IFO
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- Labor & Public Economics
- Seminar
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Tuomas Kaariaho
University of Helsinki
Firm responses to the energy crisis
- Environmental Economics
- Seminar
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Toan Le
University of Oxford
The content of this event has not been announced yet. Please check back later.
- Microeconomics
- Seminar
Latest research
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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 …
Discussion paper
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Compulsory Schooling in the 21st Century: Short-Term Effects of Finland’s 2020 Act on Compulsory Education
Juho Junttila
This study examines the short-term effects of Finland’s 2021 reform, which extended compulsory schooling to age 18. Using detailed administrative data, I analyze changes in educational outcomes and …
Discussion paper
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Skill-Related Differences in Reference-Dependent Stopping
Marco Lambrecht
This paper examines reference-dependent stopping in repeated risky decisionmaking and its relation to skill dependence and individual ability. Using field data from online heads-up poker tournaments, …
Discussion paper
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Helsinki
Arkadiankatu 7,
Economicum building,
room A214
Espoo
Ekonominaukio 1,
Aalto University School of Business,
Department of Economics
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PO BOX 21210
FI-00076 AALTO
FINLAND