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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.

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News

March 27, 2020

Open online course on economic crises (held in Finnish)

University of Helsinki organizes a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) about economic crises and how to ease them. The lecturers of the course, including Vesa Vihriälä, Olli Rehn and Sixten Korkman, are economists that have knowledge of economic crises from various angles. No one knows how long the coronavirus epidemic will last. It is societies' first priority to put an end to the epidemic. At the same time, it is clear that the shutdown of economic activity leads to a massive economic shock all over the world, inevitably also in Finland. In addition to a health crisis, an economic crisis is also ahead of us, although we don't know yet it's nature or magnitude. This is not the first economic crisis that the world, or Finland, has faced. Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff go through the economic crises…

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March 16, 2020

Helsinki GSE coronavirus update

Dear students Helsinki GSE has decided to cancel all the research Master – lectures & exercise sessions until further notice due to the Korona-virus outbreak. In so doing we at the GSE have your health foremost on our minds. This decision is in line with the guidelines issued by

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March 11, 2020

Doctoral Defence: “The economic value of the priceless: revealing the benefits of outdoor recreation in Finland”

On March 13th, M. Sc. (Agr. for.) Tuija Lankia will defend her doctoral thesis “The economic value of the priceless: revealing the benefits of outdoor recreation in Finland”. Her thesis belongs to the fields of environmental economics. Lankia contributes to the existing environmental economics literature on the economic value of

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February 11, 2020

Niku Määttänen appointed professor at the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics

Niku Määttänen, PhD (economics), has been appointed professor of macroeconomics at the Helsinki GSE. The position, based at the University of Helsinki, was founded on a donation made by the Bank of Finland to the Helsinki GSE. Määttänen will assume the position on 1 August 2020. Niku Määttänen has served

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February 3, 2020

Doctoral Defence: “Determinants of external imbalances between large economies”

On February 7th, M. Sc. (Econ.) Julia Niemeläinen will defend her doctoral thesis “Determinants of external imbalances between large economies”. Niemeläinen studies the reasons behind the long-lasting current account imbalances observed over the past decades in large open economies, such as the current account deficit of the United States and

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January 23, 2020

Professor Otto Toivanen granted a recognition award by the OP Financial Group Research Foundation

Professor Otto Toivanen, director of the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics, has been granted a recognition award of €20,000 by the OP Financial Group Research Foundation for his pioneering research focused on competition, innovation and regulation, as well as his work in developing economics and doctoral education in Finland. The

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December 19, 2019

Martti Hetemäki appointed professor of practice at the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics

Martti Hetemäki, Doctor of Social Sciences, has been appointed as professor of practice at the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics (Helsinki GSE) as of 1 July 2020. The professorship is shared equally by Aalto University and the University of Helsinki. News updated on 23 March 2020: Due to Coronavirus Disease

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Seminars + Events

Tue 7 Apr 2020

Environmental Economics

The effect of information nudges on energy saving: observations from a randomized field experiment in Finland (with Meriläinen T, Karhinen S. ja Svento R.)

Enni Ruokamo
Syke

Wed 8 Apr 2020

Industrial Organization

IO student presentation seminar- CANCELLED

Thu 9 Apr 2020

VATT Seminar

TBA

Myra Mohnen
University of Essex

Tue 14 Apr 2020

Labor and Public

TBA

Hanna Virtanen
Etla

Thu 16 Apr 2020