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Recent News
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Essays on Structural Change with Labour Market Frictions
Peter Elmgren will defend his doctoral dissertation “Essays on Structural Change with Labour Market Frictions” on January 23rd, 2026.
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Macroprudential policy : Drivers, effects and unintended consequences
Anni Norring will defend her doctoral dissertation “Macroprudential policy : Drivers, effects and unintended consequences” on January 9th, 2026.
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Essays in Economics of Unemployment
Heikki Korpela will defend his doctoral dissertation “Essays in Economics of Unemployment” on December 4th, 2025. The discussion will be in Finnish.
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Transformer Network for Macroeconometric Analysis
Oliver Snellman will defend his doctoral dissertation “Transformer Network for Macroeconometric Analysis” on November 27th, 2025.
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Essays on microeconomic prediction problems : with applications to firm growth and public procurement
Joosua Virtanen will defend his doctoral dissertation “Essays on microeconomic prediction problems: with applications to firm growth and public procurement” on November 26th, 2025.
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Upcoming events
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Camilla Christensen
University of Copenhagen, CEBI and CenTax
Are People Systematically Inactive Across Financial Decisions? Linking Evidence from Mortgage and Retirement Saving Decisions (with Henrik Yde …
- Labor & Public Economics
- Seminar
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Joakim Wikström
VATT
From Breakthroughs to Derivatives: How Grants Redirect Inventors
- Industrial Organization
- PhD Seminar
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Lachlan Paterson
Aalto University
The role of training providers in integration training
- Labor & Public Economics
- PhD Seminar
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Tuuli Tähtinen
IFO
The content of this event has not been announced yet. Please check back later.
- Labor & Public Economics
- Seminar
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Pauli Murto
Aalto University
The content of this event has not been announced yet. Please check back later.
- Lunch Seminar
Latest research
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Gender Gap in High-Stakes Exams: What Role for Exam Preparation?
Cécile Bonneau and Léa Dousset
In this paper, we show that gender gaps in performance observed in high-stakes exams, relative to low-stakes exams, are partially shaped by the context of exam preparation. We examine the role of …
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Markets, Contracts, and Hierarchies: How Bargaining Frictions Affect Governance
Tore Ellingsen and Topi Miettinen
We develop an organizational governance model with a single buyer and endogenous upstream entry. Investments and control rights over assets and actions are immediately contractable; production is …
Discussion paper
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Life-cycle effects of public childcare: Evidence on children and their parents
Mikko Silliman and Juuso Mäkinen
This paper provides large-scale evidence linking the economic effects of childcare programs to social skills measured in adulthood. We examine Finland’s first national public childcare program, and …
Discussion paper
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Hot Hands or Cold Bots? Belief Reactions to Sequential Predictions from AI, Humans, and Random Sources
Theo Herold, Marco Lambrecht, and Erik Wengström
People often draw inferences from sequences of past performance, sometimes perceiving patterns even in random outcomes. This has fueled debates regarding phenomena such as the hot hand and gambler’s …
Discussion paper
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