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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
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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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Raquel Lorenzo
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Misperceived Social Norms: A Unified Framework
- Hanken
- Job Talk
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Sijie Lin
University of Toronto
Learning to Prompt: Human Adaptation in Production with Generative AI
- Aalto University
- Job Talk
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Peter Elmgren
University of Helsinki
Peter Elmgren will defend his thesis Essays on Structural Change with Labour Market Frictions
- University of Helsinki
- Doctoral Defence
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Tuyetanh L. Tran
Yale University
The Trade-Offs of Curbside Parking: Evidence from Demand-Based Pricing
- Job Talk
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Songyuan Teng
Yale University
Innovation through Recombination
- Job Talk
Latest research
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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 …
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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 …
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Why Are There So Few Female Inventors?
Atte Pudas
Only a small fraction of inventors are women. Using Finnish administrative data linked to patent records, I show that educational and occupational sorting explain roughly 54% of the gender gap in …
Discussion paper
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