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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

  • Maria Wang

    Hanken

    Essays on the Competitiveness Impacts of Environmental and Industrial Policies

    • Hanken
    • Doctoral Defence

  • Matti Mitrunen

    University of Helsinki

    Lasting Effects of Marxism in the Classroom: Evidence from an Experiment

    • VATT
    • Seminar

  • Alessandro Topetta

    SOFI

    Effective Families or Effective Schools? Experimental Evidence on Fostering Children’s Numeracy (with Samuel Berlinski and Michele Giannola)

    • Labor & Public Economics
    • Seminar

  • Hung Le

    Aalto University

    A discrete choice model with random utility and a winning market share jump

    • Industrial Organization
    • PhD Seminar

  • Anna Holvio

    Aalto University

    Rank Effects in Elementary Education

    • Labor & Public Economics
    • PhD Seminar

Latest research

  • Teacher Selection in Finland

    Ramin Izadi

    Finland’s success in international student comparisons is often attributed to the quality of its teachers. In this paper I examine the teacher selection process in Finland and highlight three key new …

    Discussion paper

  • Who Benefits from Faster Public Transit?

    Prottoy Akbar

    Lower income commuters are more likely to ride and reside near public transit within cities, but do they also benefit more from faster transit travel? Combining survey data on travel behavior with …

    Discussion paper

  • Sovereign Risk under Diagnostic Expectations

    Stefan Niemann and Timm M. Prein

    This paper studies the effects of overreaction to recent news for macroeconomic outcomes in the context of a quantitative model of sovereign debt and default. Overreaction is formalized in terms of …

    Discussion paper

  • Jurisdictional Fragmentation and Sprawl

    Oskari Harjunen, Eetu Kauria, Tuukka Saarimaa, Janne Tukiainen: Jurisdictional Fragmentation and Sprawl

    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

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Helsinki
Arkadiankatu 7,
Economicum building,
room A214

Espoo
Ekonominaukio 1,
Aalto University School of Business,
Department of Economics

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Helsinki Graduate School of Economics
PO BOX 21210
FI-00076 AALTO
FINLAND

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