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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

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 variables influence the low-frequency component of volatilities and correlations, as well as examining various methods to improve long horizon forecasts for stock market volatility by utilising the information in macroeconomic data. Her work emphasises the importance of forward-looking economic variables for both modelling and forecasting volatility and highlights the usefulness of economic data for forecasting volatility during low volatility periods. Lindblad also identifies significant time-variation in the low-frequency correlation between exchange rate and equity returns, and for the US links this to two hypotheses suggested in the earlier literature, namely…

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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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September 30, 2019

Doctoral Defence: “Endogenous Technological Progress and the Macroeconomy: Stagnation, Low Interest Rates and the Productivity Slowdown”

On October 18th, M. Sc. (Econ.) Michaela Schmöller will defend her doctoral thesis "Endogenous Technological Progress and the Macroeconomy: Stagnation, Low Interest Rates and the Productivity Slowdown". Schmöller studies the role of endogenous technology growth in macroeconomics and the sources behind the currently observed slowdown in productivity. Her work focuses

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September 23, 2019

Pekka Sääskilahti associated to Helsinki GSE

Pekka Sääskilahti has been appointed Professor of Practice at Hanken. Sääskilahti is an expert on economics of intellectual property rights, competition and pricing. Pekka Sääskilahti has a long career within economics of intellectual property rights, competition and pricing. As Professor of Practice, he is also associated to Helsinki Graduate School

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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.

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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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Seminars + Events

Mon 9 Dec 2019

Lunch Seminar

Maternity leave reforms in Finland and children outcomes

  • Claudia Troccoli
  • Aalto

Tue 10 Dec 2019

Industrial Organization

Industrial Organization PhD Workshop

  • See program

Tue 10 Dec 2019

Labor and Public

RESCHEDULED TO SPRING 2020

  • David Seim
  • Stockholm University

Tue 10 Dec 2019

Labor and Public

Siblings’ Effects on College and Major Choice: Evidence from Chile, Croatia and Sweden

  • Andrés Barrios Fernandez
  • VATT

Thu 12 Dec 2019

Labor and Public

Labor and Public Economics PhD Workshop

  • Labor and Public Economics PhD Workshop

Fri 13 Dec 2019

Colloquium

Wars, Taxation and Representation: Evidence from Six Centuries of German History (with Sacha Becker, Andreas Ferrara and Eric Melander)

  • Luigi Pascali
  • Pompeu Fabra

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