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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.

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Upcoming events

  • Yan Chen

    University of Michigan

    Social Media and Job Market Success: A Field Experiment on Twitter

    • Colloquium

  • Adrienne Lees

    UNU-WIDER / University of Sussex

    Measuring the unmeasured: Tax compliance costs for firms in Uganda

    • Development Economics
    • Brown Bag Seminar

  • Jussipekka Salo

    University of Helsinki

    The Impact of Rising Interest Rates on Households’ Consumption and Beliefs

    • Lunch Seminar

  • Arnaud Maurel

    Duke University

    College Admission Mechanisms and the Opportunity Cost of Time (with O. De Groote, A. Fabre and M. Luflade)

    • Labor & Public Economics
    • Seminar

  • Celine Nauges

    Toulouse School of Economics

    Household food consumption: Empirical evidence on a large survey and policy implications; with Katherine Hassett (OECD) and Céline Giner (OECD)

    • Environmental Economics
    • Seminar

Latest research

  • Who Benefits from Faster Public Transit?

    Prottoy A. Akbar

    Lower income commuters are more likely to ride and reside near public transit within cities, but do they also benefit more from faster transit travel? Combining survey data on travel behavior with …

    Discussion paper

  • Sovereign Risk under Diagnostic Expectations

    Stefan Niemann and Timm M. Prein

    This paper studies the effects of overreaction to recent news for macroeconomic outcomes in the context of a quantitative model of sovereign debt and default. Overreaction is formalized in terms of …

    Discussion paper

  • Furlough unemployment

    Heikki Korpela

    I examine the long-established scheme of furloughs in Finland, using detailed data on unemployment spells from 1999 to 2021. Furloughs allow employers in financial difficulty to suspend wages and …

    Discussion paper

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Visiting Address

Helsinki
Arkadiankatu 7,
Economicum building,
room A214

Espoo
Ekonominaukio 1,
Aalto University School of Business,
Department of Economics

Postal Address

Helsinki Graduate School of Economics
PO BOX 21210
FI-00076 AALTO
FINLAND

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