Past Applied Microeconomics Seminars

     
 

 

 

 

 

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Autumn 2012 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
September 12 Essi Eerola (VATT) On the role of public price information in housing markets (with Teemu Lyytikäinen)
October 3 Paula Mäkelä (Aalto University) A Note on the Inferiority of Unanimity Rule
October 24 Sevinc Cukurova
(Aalto University)

Interlocking Directors and Target Selection in Mergers and Acquisitions

November 14 Bunyamin Onal
(Aalto University)
To Delegate or Not to Delegate to Stock Markets? The Case of Boards with Related Industry Expertise
December 5 Saara Hämäläinen
(University of Helsinki)
Learning contracts in dynamic markets for lemons

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Spring 2012 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
February 1 Sidartha Gordon (Université de Montréal) Iteratively Stable Cheap Talk
February 22    
March 14 Ari Hyytinen (University of Jyväskylä) Household optimism and borrowing
April 4 Hannu Vartiainen (HECER) Mechanism design without commitment
April 25 Karolin Kirschenmann (Aalto University) Funding vs. real economy shock: The impact of the 2007-2009 crisis on small firms’ credit availability (with Gunhild Berg)
May 16 Suvi Vasama (Aalto University) Dynamic Moral Hazard, Renegotiation, and Debt Heterogeneity
May 23 Matti Liski (Aalto University) Resource Relationships
June 20
15.00-16.00
Room B416, Economicum 4th floor
Santo Fortunato (Aalto University) Quantitative modeling of social dynamics

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Autumn 2011 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
September 7 Matti Liski (Aalto University) Public investment as commitment (joint with Reyer Gerlagh)
September 14 Rune Stenbacka (Hanken) Customer Recognition and Competition (joint with Oz Shy)
October 12 Janne Tukiainen (HECER) Testing between complete and incomplete information in simultaneous static discrete games (joint with Otto Toivanen)
October 26 Andrés Perea (Maastricht University) Utility Proportional Beliefs in Games (joint with Christian Bach) abstract
November 16 Jussi Keppo (University of Michigan) The Impact of Volcker Rule on Bank Profits and Loan Spreads
short abstract
December 7 Mats Godenhielm (University of Helsinki) Directed Search with Endogenous Capacity

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Spring 2011 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
January 26 Michelle Goeree (Universität Zürich) Do Research Joint Ventures Serve a Collusive Function? (joint with Eric Helland)
February 7
MONDAY
in the seminar room 3-4
from 16.15 to 17.45
Vikram Manjunath (University of Rochester) A market approach to fractional matching
March 2 Matti Sarvimäki (Aalto University School of Economics) Agglomeration in the Periphery
THURSDAY
April 7

in the seminar room 2
Juan Pablo Montero (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) The effect of transport policies on car use: Theory and evidence from Latin American cities (with Francisco Gallego and Christian Salas)
April 13 Otto Toivanen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) The Role of Loan Officers in Microcredit Repayment: Evidence from Bangladesh (with Khondker Aktaruzzaman and Pertti Haaparanta)
May 4 Juuso Välimäki (Aalto University School of Economics) Learning in Contests (joint with Robin Mason)
May 25 Ron Harstad (University of Missouri) Political Economy Field Experiments Become Possible

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Autumn 2010 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
September 22 Julien Daubanes (ETH) Optimum Commodity Taxation with a Non-Renewable Resource (with Pierre Lasserre)
October 13 Antti Kauhanen (ETLA) Career and wage dynamics within and between firms
November 3 Kaisa Kotakorpi (University of Tampere) Personalised regulation of sinful consumption (with Markus Haavio)
November 24 Ludwig Ressner (University of Munich) Dynamic Duopoly with Inattentive Firms
December 15 Tuomas Takalo (Bank of Finland and University of Jyväskylä) Procyclical Transparency (with with Diego Moreno)

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Spring 2010 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
January 27 Marita Laukkanen  
February 17 Mitri Kitti (Aalto University) Semi-Stationary Equilibria in Dynamic Games
March 10 Simo Kalla (University of Pennsylvania) Favor-trading with Incomplete Information
March 31 Topi Miettinen (Aalto University and HECER) Disputes and Settlement in the Lab
April 28 Yulia Pavlova (Agrifood Research Finland) Adequate cross-plant accidents prevention: a Game theory based decision aid for cluster
safety and security governance
(with Genserik Reniers)
May 12 Paavo Miettinen (Bank of Finland) Information Acquisition During a Dutch Auction 

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Autumn 2009 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
September 9 Bouwe Dijkstra (University of Nottingham) Technology Choice and Environmental Regulation under Asymmetric Information (with Alessio D'Amato)
October 7 Marko Terviö (HSE and HECER) Income Distribution and Housing Prices: An Assignment Model Approach (with Niku Määttänen)
October 21 Panu Poutvaara (University of Helsinki and HECER) The Optimal Duration of Contracts
(with Tuomas Takalo and Andreas Wagener)
November 11 Tuomas Kosonen (University of Helsinki and HECER) The effect of child care subsidies on the labour supply of parents 
December 2 Elias Einiö (University of Helsinki and HECER)

The Effect of Government Subsidies on Private R&D: Evidence from the ERDF
Population-Density Rule

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Spring 2009 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
January 28  Pauli Murto (HSE and HECER)

Exit options and dividend policy under liquidity constraints (co-author Marko Terviö)

February 18  NO SEMINAR  
March 11  Timo Kuosmanen (MTT) Neoclassical versus Frontier Production Models? Testing for the Presence of Inefficiencies in the Regression Residuals (co-author Mogens Fosgerau)
April 1 Klaus Kultti (University of Helsinki and HECER) Efficiency of Markets with Heterogenous Buyers
 
April 22 Panu Kalmi (HSE and HECER), Antti Kauhanen (HSE and HECER), and Derek Jones (Hamilton College) Firm and Employee Effects of an Enterprise Information
System: Micro-econometric Evidence
May 13

Juuso Välimäki (HSE and HECER)

Delay and Information Aggregation in Stopping Games with Private Information (co author Pauli Murto)

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Autumn 2008 schedule:

Date Speaker Title
September 10 Juuso Välimäki (HSE) Dynamic moral hazard and project completion (co-author Robin Mason)
October 1 Olli Kauppi (Helsinki School of Economics) An empirical model of imperfect dynamic competition and application to hydroelectricity storage (joint with Matti Liski)
October 22 Marko Terviö (University of California, Berkeley visiting Helsinki School of Economics) Self-Esteem, Moral Capital, and Wrongdoing
November 12 Lotta Väänänen
(HSE and HECER)
Returns to Inventors (co-author Otto Toivanen). JOB MARKET PREP-TALK.
December 3 Otto Toivanen (HECER) Innovation Policy Reform
(co-authors Tanja Tanayama and Tuomas Takalo)

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