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Autumn 2011 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
September 12 Tatu Westling (University of Helsinki) Male Organ and Economic Growth
September 26 Jussi Lintunen (Aalto University) Timber Supply under Rational Expectations
October 10 Hannu Vartiainen (HECER) Mechanism Design without Commitment
October 24 Teemu Lyytikäinen (VATT) Are voters rational? (with Janne Tukiainen)
November 7 Janne Tukiainen (HECER) Litigation in Public Procurement
November 21 Pauli Murto (Aalto University) Experimentation and Gradual Investment
December 5 Jani Luoto (University of Helsinki) Bayesian Estimation of the CES Production Function under Nonneutral Technological Change
December 19 Jussi Keppo (Aalto University) What is the true cost of active management? A comparison of hedge funds and mutual funds

 

Spring 2011 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
January 17 Linlin Niu (Wang Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics, Xiamen University) A Generalized Arbitrage-Free Nelson-Siegel Term Structure Model with Macroeconomic Fundamentals
January 31 Klaus Kultti (University of Helsinki) Wage Posting and Efficiency
February 14 Khondker Aktaruzzaman (HECER) Microfinance institutions and borrowers' productivity: Evidence from rural Bangladesh
February 28  Juuso Välimäki (Aalto University School of Economics) Efficient Search by Committee
March 14 Hannu Vartiainen (HECER) Dynamic Condorcet Winner
March 28 Karri Silventoinen (University of Helsinki) Periytyvätkö tulot – ja mitä se tarkoittaa
April 11 Niko Jaakkola (University of Oxford) Decentralised formation of inefficient CO2 pipeline networks
April 25 No seminar (Easter Monday)  
May 9 Ilkka Kiema (University of Helsinki) Leverage ratio requirement, credit allocation and bank stability
May 23 Mika Rekola (University of Helsinki) Learning outcomes and economics of education. Case: BSc and MSc in forest sciences
June 6 Matti Sarvimäki (Aalto University School of Economics) The Increasing Returns
to IQ

 

Autumn 2010 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
September 13 Saku Aura (Aalto University) Some Basic Econometrics of using Estimated Fixed Effects
September 27 Sari Kerr  
October 11 Antti Ripatti (University of Helsinki) Estimated DSGE Model for Small-Open Economy in the Monetary Union
October 25 Mikko Mustonen Aalto University) Economics of Creative Commons
November 8 Timo Kuosmanen (Aalto University) Efficiency analysis as a principle-agent game: An application to the regulation of electricity distribution networks
November 22 Yulia Pavlova (MTT) Do opposites attract? Prospects for environmental cooperation among heterogeneous
countries
(with Aart de Zeeuw)
December 20 George A. Waters (Bank of Finland and Illinois State University) The Evolution of Heterogeneous Expectations (with William R. Parke)

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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)

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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)

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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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