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Recent News
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Essays on Central Banking with Microdata
Ville Voutilainen will defend his doctoral dissertation “Essays on Central Banking with Microdata” on April 10th, 2026.
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Advancing Equality: Steps to Foster Inclusivity at Helsinki GSE
Last spring, Helsinki GSE conducted a climate survey, which was carried out in collaboration with Inklusiiv. Inklusiiv was responsible for both the practical arrangements of the survey and the analysis of its results. The survey was sent to …
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Essays on Structural Change with Labour Market Frictions
Peter Elmgren will defend his doctoral dissertation “Essays on Structural Change with Labour Market Frictions” on January 23rd, 2026.
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Macroprudential policy : Drivers, effects and unintended consequences
Anni Norring will defend her doctoral dissertation “Macroprudential policy : Drivers, effects and unintended consequences” on January 9th, 2026.
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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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Upcoming events
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Denvil Duncan
Indiana University
Taxing residential electricity consumption
- Labor & Public Economics
- Seminar
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Econometrics PhD Workshop
Workshop for Helsinki GSE and FDPE PhD students
- Econometrics
- PhD Workshop
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Ludovica Gazze
University of Warwick
People, places or houses? Households’ carbon emissions in the UK (with Lucie Gadenne, Peter Levell, Davide Sansone)
- Environmental Economics
- Seminar
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Federico Vaccari
University of Bergamo
On Negotiating Prices in Standard Setting Organizations (with Salvatore Piccolo, Patrick Rey, Pekka Sääskilahti)
- Industrial Organization
- Seminar
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Joakim Wikström
Aalto University, VATT
Open Source Software Policy in Industry Equilibrium (with Jeff Gortmaker)
- Industrial Organization
- PhD Reading Group
Latest research
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Family Taxation and Labor Supply
Juuso Mäkinen
I study a tax policy in Finland in 1976 that changed the basis for income taxation from couple’s joint income to individual income. Following the shift from family taxation to individual taxation, …
Discussion paper
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Endogenous Education Duration, Fertility Choice, and Mortality: A Framework for Optimal Population Policy
Tapio Palokangas
This paper characterizes optimal education and population policies within a continuous-time overlapping generations (OLG) framework where fertility, schooling duration, and health expenditures are …
Discussion paper
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Licensing resource exploitation with endogenous and privately known reserves
Jarmo Jääskeläinen and Pauli Lappi
We design optimal mechanism to collect revenues from nonrenewable resource exploitation, when the resource must be explored and discovered and when there is asymmetric information. The exploration …
Discussion paper
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Optimal Education Policy, R&D Productivity, and Endogenous Growth with Heterogeneous Individuals
Tapio Palokangas
This study characterizes optimal policy in an endogenous growth model where heterogeneous individuals choose between entering the workforce as unskilled labor or pursuing education to become skilled. …
Discussion paper
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