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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

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 March 2020. The professorship is shared equally by Aalto University and the University of Helsinki. From 2013, Permanent Secretary Martti Hetemäki has directed the work of the Ministry of Finance of Finland. At the end of February 2020, he will be relinquishing his position. Hetemäki has had a noteworthy career in the service of the Ministry. Before being appointed as permanent secretary, he served as an under-secretary and, prior to that, as director general of the Economics Department, among other positions. Hetemäki is also the chair of the board of Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund. “Martti Hetemäki’s unique experience in the field of economic policy will enrich the research operations of the entire Helsinki GSE.…

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December 17, 2019

Ritva Reinikka appointed as Professor of Practice at Helsinki GSE

Helsinki Graduate School of Economics has appointed Ritva Reinikka, D.Phil., to be Professor of Practice. She will be based at Aalto University School of Business. Her three-year professorship will focus on development economics and policy. Dr. Reinikka’s long career in development includes the World Bank, where she worked for 20

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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

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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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Seminars + Events

Tue 21 Jan 2020

Job Talk

Persistent Unemployment, Sovereign Debt Crises, and the Impact of Haircuts

  • Timm Prein
  • Universität Konstanz

Wed 22 Jan 2020

Macroeconomics

Centralized wage setting in a New Keynesian model

  • Petteri Juvonen
  • University of Helsinki

Wed 22 Jan 2020

Job Talk

Sibling Differences in Educational Polygenic Scores: How do Parents React?

  • Anastasia Terskaya
  • University of Alicante

Thu 23 Jan 2020

Job Talk

Roads, Internal Migration and the Spatial Sorting of US High-Skilled Workers

  • Florin Cucu
  • Sciences Po Paris

Fri 24 Jan 2020

Policies for Human Capital Accumulation Among the World’s Poor

Yrjö Jahnsson Award lecture
  • Imran Rasul
  • University College London

Fri 24 Jan 2020

The Organisational Economics of the State

Yrjö Jahnsson Award lecture
  • Oriana Bandiera
  • London School of Economics

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