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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.

Research Master’s Track in Economics

The Research Master's Track is one of the study tracks in the Master's programs. It provides a high value-added education for students whose ambition is to obtain challenging and demanding expert positions.

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Upcoming events

  • Johanna Wallenius

    Stockholm School of Economics

    Does Student Aid Improve Educational Mobility? (with Frederik Bjørn Christensen)

    • Colloquium
  • Dean Yang

    University of Michigan

    Ancient Epics in the Television Age: Mass Media, Identity, and the Rise of Hindu Nationalism in India

    • Development Economics
    • Seminar
  • Nadja Dwenger

    University of Hohenheim

    Building Capacity in the Public Administration: Evidence from German Reunification (joint work with Anna Gumpert)

    • Labor & Public Economics
    • Seminar
  • Atte Kaljonen

    Aalto University

    Abe Dunn, Joshua D Gottlieb, Adam Hale Shapiro, Daniel J Sonnenstuhl, Pietro Tebaldi: A Denial a Day Keeps the Doctor Away, QJE Volume 139, Issue 1, …

    • Industrial Organization
    • Reading Group
  • Joao Montez

    HEC Lausanne

    Signaling new model quality with old models: delist or discount? (with Sandro Shelegia)

    • Industrial Organization
    • Seminar

Latest research

  • Markets, Contracts, or Firms? A Simple Model of Governance

    Tore Ellingsen and Topi Miettinen

    We build a simple formal model of governance. Investments and control rights over assets and labor are fully contractible, but final production decisions are ex ante uncontractible, and ex post …

    Discussion paper

  • Planning for Family Succession

    Ciprian Domnisoru and Robert A. Miller

    Sons succeed their exiting CEO parents more often than daughters. How do entrepreneurial families reach this gender imbalance, and how does it affect the prospects of their firms and their offspring? …

    Discussion paper

  • Gradual Learning from Incremental Actions

    Tuomas Laiho, Pauli Murto, and Julia Salmi

    We introduce a collective experimentation problem where a continuum of agents choose the timing of irreversible actions under uncertainty and where public feedback from the actions arrives gradually …

    Discussion paper

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Visiting Address

Helsinki
Arkadiankatu 7,
Economicum building,
room A214

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

Postal Address

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