February 11, 2020
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
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, 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, 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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December 17, 2019
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
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
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
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 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
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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