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Recent News
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Designing Market Institutions
Mikael Mäkimattila will defend his doctoral dissertation “Designing market institutions” on June 5, 2026.
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The Lifecycle of Inequality: Childhood Neighborhoods, Redistribution, and Lifetime Pensions in Finland and Europe
Arttu Kauhanen will defend his doctoral dissertation “The Lifecycle of Inequality: Childhood Neighborhoods, Redistribution, and Lifetime Pensions in Finland and Europe” on May 28th, 2026.
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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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Upcoming events
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Florian Oswald
University of Turin
The Geography of Market Power: Firm Location, Spatial Rents, and Their Social Costs
- Trade, Regional and Urban Economics
- Seminar
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Gabrielle Fack
Dauphine University
The Effect of Affirmative Action on Targeted and Non-Targeted Students: Evidence from Low-income priorites in Paris High Schools (with Julien Grenet …
- Economics of Education (Educa)
- Seminar
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Ellen Sahlström
Aalto University
Effects of providing long-term preventive support to disadvantaged boys
- Labor & Public Economics
- PhD Seminar
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Raffaele Saggio
University of British Columbia
Careers and Wages in Family Firms: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data (with Edoardo Di Porto, Marco Pagano, Vincenzo Pezone and Fabiano …
- VATT
- Seminar
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Mikael Mäkimattila
Aalto University
Mikael Mäkimattila will defend his thesis Designing Market Institutions
- Aalto University
- Doctoral Defence
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, …
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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. …
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