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August 15, 2019

On August 19th, Ms.Soc.Sc Markku Siikanen will defend his doctoral thesis “Industrial Organization Study on Spillovers Between Pharmaceutical Markets”. Siikanen studies the interaction between the hospital and retail pharmaceutical markets in Finland. His thesis belongs to the fields of industrial organization and health economics. Markku Siikanen contributes to the existing economics literature

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August 12, 2019

On August 14th, M.Sc. (Econ.) Eero Sillasto will defend his doctoral thesis “Essays on Resource Exploitation under Fixed Costs”. Sillasto studies implementation of fixed costs for activities with a finite amount of production. The results of his thesis are applicable, for instance, to the policies for exploiting the natural resources. Eero Sillasto’s

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March 6, 2019

Vesa Vihriälä, DSocSci, has been appointed professor of practice at the University of Helsinki. Vihriälä will assume the position on 1 July 2019.  The mission of the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics, established in the spring of 2018, is to expand the scope and improve the quality of education and

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September 25, 2018

Money follows the best people and ideas, said Professor Bengt Holmström in the opening ceremony of Helsinki Graduate School of Economics. Professor Jean Tirole expected courage from politicians to admit that preventing climate change will require financial investment. The new graduate school and research institution Helsinki Graduate School of Economics,

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