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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 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 on explaining deep recessions and episodes of secular stagnation. Schmöller's work contributes to the literature on macroeconomics and departs from the standard paradigm in two central aspects: Firstly, by incorporating endogenous technology growth and, secondly, by accounting for nonlinearities, above all the zero lower bound constraint on nominal interest rates. Her dissertation points out that deficient aggregate demand may, against the conventional view, also transmit to aggregate supply by weighing down technology-enhancing investments. Hence, subdued demand may depress the economy's longer-term growth prospects, blurring the lines between cyclical fluctuations and…

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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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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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Seminars + Events

Tue 15 Oct 2019

Labor and Public

Firm- and individual-level responses to labor immigration

  • Cristina Bratu
  • Aalto University

Mon 21 Oct 2019

Lunch Seminar

TBA

  • Jiekai Zhang
  • Hanken School of Business

Tue 22 Oct 2019

Microeconomics

Microeconomics PhD Workshop

Tue 22 Oct 2019

Environmental Economics

Cost vector effects in discrete choice experiments – does the size and range of cost levels impact choices and willingness to pay?

  • Heini Ahtiainen
  • Luke/HELCOM

Wed 23 Oct 2019

Time Series

TBA

  • Henri Nyberg
  • University of Turku

Wed 23 Oct 2019

Microeconomics

Experts, Quacks and Fortune-Tellers: Dynamic Cheap Talk with Career Concerns

  • Egor Starkov
  • University of Copenhagen

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