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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

  • Selcen Cakir

    University of Turku

    Delegation and Recruitment in Organizations: The Slippery Slope to “Bad” Leadership

    • Microeconomics
    • Seminar
  • Ufuk Ackigit

    University of Chicago

    Career Choice of Entrepreneurs, Inventors and Economic Growth (with Harun Alp/Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Jeremy Pearce/University of …

    • Macroeconomics
    • Colloquium
  • Jerry Montonen

    Aalto University

    The content of this event has not been announced yet. Please check back later.

    • Lunch Seminar
  • Sam Asher

    Imperial College London

    Cultural Capital and Economic Opportunity in Rural India

    • Seminar
  • Pia Pinger

    University of Cologne

    The content of this event has not been announced yet. Please check back later.

    • Labor & Public Economics
    • Seminar

Latest research

  • Jurisdictional Fragmentation and Sprawl

    Oskari Harjunen, Eetu Kauria, Tuukka Saarimaa, Janne Tukiainen

    This paper explores the connection between jurisdictional fragmentation and sprawl. We utilize Finnish municipal mergers as a quasi-experiment which induces exogenous variation in the number of local …

    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

  • Name-Based Estimators of Intergenerational Mobility

    Torsten Santavirta and Jan Stuhler

    Recent studies use names—first and surnames—to estimate intergenerational mobility in sources that lack direct family links. While generating novel evidence on intergenerational transmission …

    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