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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.

About Helsinki GSE

News

September 4, 2019

Bengt Holmström to promote doctoral student research

Nobel Prize Laureate Bengt Holmström will be linked to Helsinki Graduate School of Economics and Hanken as Hanken Foundation Distinguished Fellow as of January 1, 2020. Bengt Holmström focuses on promoting doctoral research in Helsinki GSE. “Helsinki GSE’s mission is to produce outstanding research with maximum academic and social impact. We are extremely pleased that Bengt Holmström shares his knowledge with our doctoral students”, says Otto Toivanen, Academic Director of Helsinki GSE. Holmström has worked at top US universities such as Northwestern, Yale and MIT. Holmström received his undergraduate degree from the University of Helsinki and defended his doctorate at Stanford. In his own research, Holmström specializes in theoretical microeconomics, especially research on incentive problems. In 2016, he was the first Finn to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics with Oliver Hart at Harvard.

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August 15, 2019

Doctoral Defence: “Industrial Organization Study on Spillovers Between Pharmaceutical Markets”

On August 19th, Ms.Soc.Sc Markku Siikanen will defend his doctoral thesis “Industrial Organization Study on Spillovers Between Pharmaceutical Markets”. Siikanen studies the interaction between the hospital and retail pharmaceutical markets in Finland. His thesis belongs to the fields of industrial organization and health economics. Markku Siikanen contributes to the existing economics literature

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August 13, 2019

Doctoral Defence: “Essays on Information and Knowledge in Game Theory”

On August 16th, doctoral candidate Michele Crescenzi will defend his doctoral thesis "Essays on Information and Knowledge in Game Theory". The thesis is a theoretical analysis of how information and knowledge affect strategic interactions. Crescenzi’s work contributes to the literature on microeconomic theory. He examines three issues. First, he shows

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August 12, 2019

Doctoral Defence: “Essays on Resource Exploitation under Fixed Costs”

On August 14th, M.Sc. (Econ.) Eero Sillasto will defend his doctoral thesis “Essays on Resource Exploitation under Fixed Costs”. Sillasto studies implementation of fixed costs for activities with a finite amount of production. The results of his thesis are applicable, for instance, to the policies for exploiting the natural resources. Eero Sillasto’s

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June 26, 2019

Doctoral Defence: “Essays on Informal Practices, Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development”

On June 28th, Ms. Sc. (Econ.) Sinikka Parviainen will defend her doctoral thesis “Essays on Informal Practices, Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development”. Parviainen studies the relationship between informal practices and economic development with both cross-country data and through an example focused on Russia. Sinikka Parviainen’s work contributes to the

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May 27, 2019

Doctoral Defence: “Essays on Information Dynamics”

On May 29th, M.Soc.Sc Julia Salmi will defend her doctoral thesis “Essays on Information Dynamics”. Salmi studies the timing of information generation and its role in strategic decisions. Her work focuses on how uncertainty resolves in markets and related settings where market participant’s decisions govern the revelation of uncertainty. Salmi’s

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May 24, 2019

Discussions with students: Creativity in economic research

In May 2019, PhD students of Helsinki Graduate School of Economics had an opportunity to meet Bengt Holmström and Seppo Honkapohja and discuss creativity in economic research. Holmström and Honkapohja described how they come up with research ideas and how they recognize the most important questions. They also talked about

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Seminars + Events

Mon 23 Sep 2019

Lunch Seminar

Loan officer incentives in microfinance – a field experiment

  • Miri Stryjan
  • Ben-Gurion

Tue 24 Sep 2019

Environmental Economics

The Regulatory Challenge of Restricting Participation to Limit Environmentally Undesirable Production Growth (joint with Atle Oglend)

  • Vesa-Heikki Soini
  • Hanken School of Economics

Wed 25 Sep 2019

Time Series

Identifying Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregression Models via Changes in Shock Variances

  • Yohei Yamamoto
  • Hitotsubashi

Wed 25 Sep 2019

Industrial Organization

Privacy Regulation and Quality Investment (with Ying Lei Toh)

  • Yassine Lefouili
  • Tolouse School of Economics

Thu 26 Sep 2019

VATT Seminar

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Neighbors’ Effects on University Enrollment

  • Andres Barrios Fernandez
  • VATT

Fri 27 Sep 2019

Colloquium

TBA

  • Tarun Ramadorai
  • ICL

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