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Autumn 2011
Spring 2011

Autumn 2010
Autumn 2009
Spring 2009
Autumn 2008

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Autumn 2011 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
August 31 Hanna Freystätter (Bank of Finland) Financial factors in the boom-bust episode in Finland in the late 1980s and early 1990s
September 21
in the seminar
room 1
Maria Teresa Punzi (University of Nottingham) Expectations-Driven Cycles in the Housing Market (joint with Luisa Lambertini and Caterina Mendicino)
October 5 Augustin K. Fosu (UNU WIDER) Growth, Inequality and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries: Recent Global Evidence
November 2 Christian Matthes (UPF) Optimal Disinflation Under Learning
November 23 Adam Gulan (Bank of Finland) Interest Rates and Business Cycles in Emerging Economies: The Role of Financial Frictions (joint with Andrés Fernándezy)
December 14
UNU-WIDER and
HECER Seminar

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Lant Pritchett (Harvard University) It’s a deals world: The dynamics of capitalism with weak institutions

 

Spring 2011 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
January 19 Mikael Juselius (University of Helsinki) Sustainable Financial Obligations and Crisis Cycles
February 16 Svetlana Ledyaeva (Aalto University) Foreign Investments between Russia and Offshore Financial Centres: Capital Flight or Institutional Arbitrage? (joint with Päivi Karhunen)
March 16 Lauri Vilmi (University of Oulu) The Effects of Endogenous Firm Exit on Business Cycle Dynamics and Optimal Fiscal Policy
March 23 Efrem Castelnuovo (University of Padova) Are Cholesky-VARs Reliable?
An Investigation with Euro Data
May 18 Meri Obstbaum (Aalto University) Labour market frictions and wage rigidity in an estimated model of the Finnish economy
June 15
in the seminar room 3-4
from 15.00 to 16.00
Tero Kuusi (Aalto University) Discovering the Missing Link - ICT and Productivity Gaps in an Appropriate Model

 

Autumn 2010 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
September 8 Jenni Pääkkönen (VATT) When does it pay off to misreport macroeconomic statistics?
September 29 Svetlana Ledyaeva (Aalto University) Location choices of foreign firms' across Russian regions: the role of democracy and corruption
October 20 Elisa Newby (BOF) The Suspension of the Gold Standard as Sustainable Monetary Policy
November 10 Seppo Orjasniemi (BOF) The Effect of Openness in Small Monetary Union
December 1 Tomi Kortela (University of Turku) Do credit shocks matter for aggregate consumption?

 

Autumn 2009 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
September 23 Giovanni Ferri (University of Bari) How Do Markets Value Relationship Banking During Financial Crises? The Case of Korea
October 14 Tuomas Malinen (University of Helsinki) Convergence and Growth: Demographic factors and clubs
(co-authors Ulla Lehmijoki ja Jenni Pääkkönen)
November 4 No seminar  
November 25 Niku Määttänen (Helsinki School of Economics) Matching in the housing market with risk aversion and savings
(co-author Essi Eerola)
December 16 No seminar  

 

Spring 2009 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
January 14

Sophocles Mavroeidis (Brown University)

Monetary policy rules and macroeconomic stability: some new evidence
February 11 Jenni Pääkkönen (University of Helsinki and HECER) Convergence and Demographic Transition
March 4 Ilkka Kiema (University of Helsinki and HECER) On the Dynamics of a General Equilibrium Model with a Fixed Age of Retirement
March 25 Svetlana Ledyaeva (Helsinki School of Economics and HECER) and Maija Sirkjärvi (Helsinki School of Economics) Forecasting regional economy: the case study for the Russian city of Saint Petersburg
April 15 Md. Anichul Hoque Khan (University of Helsinki and HECER) Are the cofactors of a peaceful and successful state alike? Empirical evidence
May 6

Ulla Lehmijoki (University of Helsinki & HECER)

Air pollution deaths in Europe 2020: Gravity model and EKC decomposition

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Autumn 2008 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
September 15 Ashim Kumar Kar (Swedish School of Economics) Does financing structure ensure better performance in microfinance institutions?
Cross-country evidence
October 15 Jenni Pääkkönen (University of Helsinki) Growth in Transition
November 5 Tuomas Malinen (University of Helsinki) Estimating the long-run relationship between income inequality and economic development
November 26 Pellervo Hämäläinen (University of Turku) Relationship between regional value added and public capital in Finland: What do the new
panel econometric techniques tell us?
(co-author Tuomas Malinen)
December 17 Juha Tervala (University of Helsinki) Productive Government Spending and Private Consumption: A Pessimistic View

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