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 March 2020. The professorship is shared equally by Aalto University and the University of Helsinki. From 2013, Permanent Secretary Martti Hetemäki has directed the work
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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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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 13, 2019
On August 16th, doctoral candidate Michele Crescenzi will defend his doctoral thesis "Essays on Information and Knowledge in Game Theory". The thesis is a theoretical analysis of how information and knowledge affect strategic interactions. Crescenzi’s work contributes to the literature on microeconomic theory. He examines three issues. First, he shows
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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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June 26, 2019
On June 28th, Ms. Sc. (Econ.) Sinikka Parviainen will defend her doctoral thesis “Essays on Informal Practices, Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development”. Parviainen studies the relationship between informal practices and economic development with both cross-country data and through an example focused on Russia. Sinikka Parviainen’s work contributes to the
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May 27, 2019
On May 29th, M.Soc.Sc Julia Salmi will defend her doctoral thesis “Essays on Information Dynamics”. Salmi studies the timing of information generation and its role in strategic decisions. Her work focuses on how uncertainty resolves in markets and related settings where market participant’s decisions govern the revelation of uncertainty. Salmi’s
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May 24, 2019
In May 2019, PhD students of Helsinki Graduate School of Economics had an opportunity to meet Bengt Holmström and Seppo Honkapohja and discuss creativity in economic research. Holmström and Honkapohja described how they come up with research ideas and how they recognize the most important questions. They also talked about
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April 29, 2019
Jiekai Zhang, PhD from Toulouse Business School, has been appointed assistant professor in competition economics and empirical industrial organization at the Helsinki Graduate School of Economics. The position is housed at Hanken School of Economics. Before joining Helsinki GSE and Hanken, Zhang was a research fellow at the Department of
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April 2, 2019
The establishment of the new professorship in the Aalto University School of Business is made possible by a joint donation of EUR 2.5 million from the Saastamoinen Foundation and the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation. The task of Helsinki Graduate School of Economics (Helsinki GSE) is to increase the quantity
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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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