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Autumn 2011
Spring 2011
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Spring 2010
Autumn 2009
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seminars
Autumn 2011 schedule:
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Date |
Speaker |
Title |
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August 24 |
Bas Jacobs (Erasmus University
Rotterdam) |
Optimal Redistributive Taxes and
Redistributive Preferences in the Netherlands (joint
with Floris Zoutman and Egbert Jongen) |
| September 7 |
Matti Liski
(Aalto University) |
Public investment as commitment
(joint with Reyer Gerlagh) |
| September 28 |
Sari Kerr (Wellesley
College) |
The Effect of Work First Job Placements on the
Distribution of
Earnings: An Instrumental Variable Quantile Regression
(joint with David H. Autor and Susan Houseman) |
| October 19 |
Janne Tukiainen (HECER) |
Political Re-election Incentives and Policy
Choices: Evidence from Voting on Municipal Mergers
(joint with Ari Hyytinen and Tuukka Saarimaa) |
| November 9 |
Marko Terviö
(Aalto University) |
Intergeneration Mobility of Income and Ability (with Niku
Määttänen and Pauli Murto) |
| November 30 |
Angela Djupsjöbacka (Åbo
Akademi) |
Discrimination at universities - evidence from anonymous exams
(joint with Jonas Lagerström) |
| December 21 |
Lotta Väänänen (Nokia) |
Regional Supply of Education and Student Sorting (with Hanna Virtanen) abstract |
Spring 2011 schedule:
|
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
|
February 9
|
Kristian Koerselman (Åbo
Akademi) |
Bias from the Use of Mean-based Methods on
Test Scores |
| Thursday
March 10, at 16-17, seminar room 1 |
Pedro Martins (Queen Mary,
University of London) |
Can Targeted, Non-Cognitive Skills Programs
Improve Achievement? Evidence from EPIS |
|
March 30
seminar room 1 |
Oskar Nordström Skans
(IFAU) |
Wage Adjustment and Productivity Shocks
(with Mikael Carlsson and Julián Messina) |
| April
20 |
Markus Jäntti (SOFI, Stockholm
University) |
Equality of opportunity and the distribution
of long-run income in Sweden (with Anders Björklund
and John E Roemer) |
| May
11 |
Tomas Sjögren (Umeå University) |
Tax Policy and Present-Biased Preferences:
Paternalism under International Capital Mobility (with Thomas Aronsson) |
Thursday
May 19, at 16-17, seminar room 3-4 |
Kingsley Browne (Wayne State University Law School) |
Evolved sex differences and their effects on the glass ceiling,
the gender gap in compensation, and occupational segregation |
Autumn 2010 schedule:
|
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
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September 15 |
Torsten Santavirta (Aalto University) |
The Effect of Church Tax and
Transaction Costs on the Decision to Opt Out from State Church |
| October 6 |
Suncica Vujic (LSE) |
The Crime Reducing Effect of Education (joint with
Stephen Machin, Olivier Marie) |
| October 27 |
Felix Weinhardt (LSE) |
Neighbourhood effects and educational achievement (with Steve
Gibbons and Olmo Silva) |
| November 17 |
Roope Uusitalo (VATT) |
How Local Economies Absorb Shocks in Labor Supply? Evidence from
Post-WWII Resettlement Policy |
| December 8 |
Pavel Trisch (Aalto University and University of Kyiv-Mohyla
Academy) |
Involuntary unemployment, if at all, may be the consequence of
resume hiring system |
Spring 2010 schedule:
|
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
|
January 20 |
Panu Kalmi (Aalto University) |
Financial
Participation in
Finland: Incidence and Determinants
(with
Derek C. Jones, Takao Kato
and Mikko Mäkinen) |
February
10
seminar room 1 |
Kaisa Kotakorpi
(University of Tampere) |
Pay for politicians and Candidate Selection: An Empirical
Analysis (with Panu Poutvaara) |
|
March 3 |
Tuomas Kosonen (VATT and University of Helsinki) |
What was actually cut in barbers' VAT cut? |
| March 24 |
Tomi Kyyrä (VATT) |
Early retirement policy in the presence of competing exit
pathways: Lessons
from pension reforms in Finland
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| April
14 |
Janne Tukiainen (HECER and VATT) |
Local Government Coalition Formation and Political Decision
Making: Evidence from Finnish Municipal Mergers |
| May 5 |
Alex
Bryson (NIESR and LSE) |
Do
Salaried Workers Perform Better Than Piece Rate Workers?
(with Babatunde Buraimo and Rob Simmons) |
| May
26 |
Mikko
Mäkinen (Aalto University)
|
HRM practices and Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence from Finland
(with Derek C. Jones, Panu Kalmi, and Takao Kato) |
Autumn 2009 schedule:
|
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
|
September 16 |
Antti Kauhanen (ETLA and Helsinki School of Economics) |
Incentive intensity and firm
performance: a case study |
| September 30 |
Hanna Pesola (Helsinki
School of Economics) |
Spillovers From
Multinationals to Domestic Firms: An Empirical Analysis of the
Profitability Effects of Labor Flows (with Pekka
Ilmakunnas and Mika Maliranta) |
Tuesday October 27
Seminar room 2
from 16.00 to 17.00 |
Tallamaria Maunu (University of Helsinki) |
The distribution of pension wealth in Finland |
| October 28 |
Jukka Pirttilä (Labour Institute of Economic Researh and
University of Tampere) |
Public provision, commodity demand and hours
of work: An empirical analysis (with Ilpo Suoniemi) |
Tuesday
November 17 |
Thomas Aronsson (Umeå University) |
Conspicuous Leisure: Optimal Income Taxation when both Relative
Consumption and Relative Leisure Matter (with Olof Johansson-Stenman
) |
| November 18 |
Katariina Nilsson-Hakkala
(Helsinki School of Economics, VATT) |
Offshored Job Tasks and
Displaced Workers (with Kristiina Huttunen) |
| December 9 |
Darko Jus (CES, University of Munich) |
The Puzzle of Norwegian Oil Extraction |
Spring 2009 schedule:
|
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
|
January 21 |
Erkki Koskela (University of Helsinki and HECER) |
Outsourcing and Labor Taxation in Dual Labor Markets (co-author
Panu Poutvaara) |
| February 4 |
Roope
Uusitalo (Government Institute for Economic Research) |
Are
life-time jobs disappearing - evidence from lifetime employment
histories
(co-author Miikka Rokkanen) |
| February 25 |
Tomi Kyyrä (Government Institute for Economic
Research) |
A distributional analysis of displacement costs in
an economic depression and recovery (co-author Ossi Korkeamäki) |
| March 18 |
Elias Einiö (University of Helsinki and HECER) |
Technology and the Demand for Skills: Some Quasi-Experimental
Evidence |
| April 8 |
Kristiina Huttunen (HECER and PT) |
Employment Effect of Low Wage Subsidies
(co-authors Jukka Pirttilä and Roope Uusitalo) |
| April 29 |
Torsten Santavirta (Helsinki
School of Economics and HECER) |
Child evacuees during WWII: Evaluating the long term consequences of
evacuating children from war adversities |
| May 27 |
Niku Määttänen (ETLA) |
R&D Tax
Credits: A General Equilibrium Analysis (joint work with Mika
Maliranta) |
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Autumn 2008 schedule:
|
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
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September 17 |
Ari Hyytinen (University of Jyväskylä) |
The return
to entrepreneurship puzzle (joint with Pekka Ilmakunnas and Otto
Toivanen) |
| October 8 |
Hanna
Pesola (Helsinki School of Economics) |
International
Trade and the Distribution of Wages |
| October 29 |
Jenni Pääkkönen (University of Helsinki) |
Growth in Transition |
| November 6 |
Peter Fredriksson (Institute for Labor Market
Policy Evaluation, Uppsala) |
Do
Unemployment Benefits Increase Unemployment? New Evidence on an Old
Question (joint with Martin Söderström) |
| November 19 |
Markus Jäntti (Åbo Akademi) |
Family Background and Income during the Rise of
the Welfare State: Brother Correlations in Income for Swedish Men
Born 1932-1968 (joint with Anders Björklund and Matthew
Lindquist) |
| December 10 |
Tuomas Kosonen (VATT and
University of Helsinki) |
Optimal
income taxation with extensive margin and provision of public goods |
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