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Research + Study

Helsinki GSE organizes itself through research groups. Each research group is responsible for promoting and developing cooperation within the Helsinki GSE community in its research area.

Research Groups

Helsinki GSE Master’s programs offer a wide selection of courses covering all the main fields of economics. Our courses enable our students to learn the essential core of economics at an advanced level, while providing them with the possibility to tailor their education according to their specific interests.

Studies at Helsinki GSE

Helsinki GSE students can take courses from each of the three departments. The listing below represents our current course offering covering all the Helsinki GSE universities.

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News

February 11, 2020

Niku Määttänen appointed professor at the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics

Niku Määttänen, PhD (economics), has been appointed professor of macroeconomics at the Helsinki GSE. The position, based at the University of Helsinki, was founded on a donation made by the Bank of Finland to the Helsinki GSE. Määttänen will assume the position on 1 August 2020. Niku Määttänen has served in a number of positions at the Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA) from 2003, working as its research director as of 2015. Throughout 2009, he served as a fixed-term professor of economics at the Helsinki School of Economics. Määttänen’s research activities are focused on macroeconomics and public finance, often combining the themes. Among other things, he has investigated questions pertaining to the taxation of housing equity and financial savings, the effect of changes in borrowing constraints and income distribution on housing prices, as well as the effect of…

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February 3, 2020

Doctoral Defence: “Determinants of external imbalances between large economies”

On February 7th, M. Sc. (Econ.) Julia Niemeläinen will defend her doctoral thesis “Determinants of external imbalances between large economies”. Niemeläinen studies the reasons behind the long-lasting current account imbalances observed over the past decades in large open economies, such as the current account deficit of the United States and

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January 23, 2020

Professor Otto Toivanen granted a recognition award by the OP Financial Group Research Foundation

Professor Otto Toivanen, director of the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics, has been granted a recognition award of €20,000 by the OP Financial Group Research Foundation for his pioneering research focused on competition, innovation and regulation, as well as his work in developing economics and doctoral education in Finland. The

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December 19, 2019

Martti Hetemäki appointed professor of practice at the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics

Martti Hetemäki, Doctor of Social Sciences, has been appointed as professor of practice at the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics (Helsinki GSE) as of 1 March 2020. The professorship is shared equally by Aalto University and the University of Helsinki. From 2013, Permanent Secretary Martti Hetemäki has directed the work

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December 17, 2019

Ritva Reinikka appointed as Professor of Practice at Helsinki GSE

Helsinki Graduate School of Economics has appointed Ritva Reinikka, D.Phil., to be Professor of Practice. She will be based at Aalto University School of Business. Her three-year professorship will focus on development economics and policy. Dr. Reinikka’s long career in development includes the World Bank, where she worked for 20

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November 25, 2019

Doctoral Defence: “Evaluating macro-finance interactions using mixed frequency methods”

On November 29th, M.Soc.Sc. (Economics) Annika Lindblad will defend her doctoral thesis "Evaluating macro-finance interactions using mixed frequency methods". The dissertation examines how macroeconomic variables influence financial market volatility and correlations using mixed frequency time series methods. Lindblad's work contributes to the literature on empirical macroeconometrics by illuminating which economic

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November 12, 2019

Doctoral Defence: “Essays on noninvertible ARMA models”

On November 15th. MSSc. Juho Nyholm will defend his doctoral thesis “Essays on noninvertible ARMA models”. His thesis contributes to the time series econometric literature by expanding novel theoretical results in ARMA modeling under noninvertibility and non-Gaussianity. Nyholm shows how assuming noninvertibility in classical ARMA models allows for modelling more

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Seminars + Events

Mon 24 Feb 2020

Lunch Seminar

“Censorship and Reputation”

Daniel N Hauser
Aalto University

Wed 26 Feb 2020

Industrial Organization

Vertical Contracting with Endogenous Market Structure

Markus Reisinger
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

Fri 28 Feb 2020

Colloquium

General Equilibrium Oligopoly and Ownership Structure

José Azar
IESE Business School University of Navarra

Mon 2 Mar 2020