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Spring 2010
Autumn 2009

Spring 2009
Autumn 2008

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Spring 2010 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
March 15 Juuso Välimäki (Aalto University and HECER) Timing of Services (with Dirk Bergemann, Yale)
March 29 Niko Jaakkola (University of Oxford) Supply-side climate policy and sovereign wealth: A game-theoretic model of OECD and OPEC
April 12 Marko Terviö (Aalto University) Public Monopsony in the Labor Market
April 26 Vesa Kanniainen (University of Helsinki) Honor, Shared Heroism, and Survival: An Evolutionary Approach
May 10 Matti Liski (Aalto University) Consistent public
investments
(joint with Reyer Gerlagh, Tilburg)

Autumn 2009 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
September 21 Panu Poutvaara (University of Helsinki) Traumatic Events in the Media and Student Performance: Evidence from School Shootings
(with Olli Ropponen)
October 5

 No seminar

October 19 Nicholas Sheard (SSE) Multimarket entry in exporting
November 2 Svetlana Ledyaeva (HSE) Institutional distance and foreign ownership strategies in Russia (with Päivi Karhunen)
November 16 Meri Obstbaum (HSE and HECER) Fiscal policy and labour market matching
November 30 Janne Tukiainen (HECER and VATT) Minimum bid increments in internet auctions: A field experiment
December 14 Matteo Ploner (University of Trento) Group Membership, Team Preferences, and
Expectations
(with Francesco Guala and Luigi Mittone)

Spring 2009 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
February 9 Teemu Lyytikäinen (HSE and HECER)

Does a church tax affect the decision to opt out from state church?

February 23 Kari Kemppainen (HSE and Bank of Finland)

Integrating European Retail Payment Systems

March 9

Kristiina Huttunen (HECER and Labour Institute for Economic Research)

The Rehabilitative Effects of Criminal Sanctions: Evidence from a Juvenile Punishment Experiment (co-authors Ville Mälkönen ja Sari Kerr)

March 23 NO SEMINAR  
April 6

Svetlana Ledyaeva (Helsinki School of Economics and HECER) 

Determinants of entre-preneurial interest and risk tolerance among Russian university students: Empirical study (co-author Päivi Karhunen)

April 20

Elias Einiö (University of Helsinki and HECER)

Technology and the Demand for Skills: Some Quasi-Experimental Evidence

May 4

Saioa Arando (ETEO, Mondragon University, Spain)

Productive Efficiency in the Mondragon Cooperatives: Evidence from an Econometric Case Study (co-author Derek Jones)

May 18

Matti Liski (HSE and HECER)

The simple analytics of energy demand change (co-author Pauli Murto, HSE)

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Autumn 2008 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
September 15 Tuomas Takalo (Bank of Finland and U. of Jyväskylä) Trolls or Elves? (joint with Ari Hyytinen, U. of Jyväskylä)
September 29 Kirsten Bonde Rördam (University of Copenhagen, visiting BoF) Effects of Indirect Settlement in Large-Value Payment Systems
October 13 Matti Sarvimäki (VATT, HSE and HECER) Temporary shocks and the geography of economic activity: Evidence from a large-scale resettlement policy (joint with Aki Kangasharju, VATT)
October 20 Tatsuyoshi Miyakoshi (Osaka University, visiting HSE) A planner of global income transfers: International public goods and productivity differentials
October 27 Khan Md. Anichul Hoque (U. of Helsinki and HECER) Banks' supervision and banking sector instability
November 24

Chun-Yu Ho (Georgia Institute of Technology, visiting BoF)

Switching cost and deposit demand in China
December 8

Hannu Vartiainen (Turku School of Economics)

Dynamic coalitional equilibrium
December 15

Zhou Fei (HSE and HECER)

Endogenous Energy Demand and Intertemporal Elasticity of Energy Consumption

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