TSE Economics Research Seminar

Spring 2025 Schedule:

Seminars will be held on Tuesdays at 16-17 and are open to everyone interested. Please note that the first seminar session this spring will exceptionally take place on Monday 13.1. at 16-17.

13.1. (NB Monday!) Toan Huynh (QMUL): Sanctions and Knowledge Spillovers – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
21.1. Tuomas Kari (LSE): Founders' Flair: The Role of Personality Traits in Attracting Top Talent – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
28.1. Jeremias Nieminen (Labore/UTU): The Role of Homeownership in Shaping Geographic Voting Preferences and Spatial Inequality – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
4.2. Riku Buri (KKV): The Effect of Mergers on Prices: Evidence from Five Approved Mergers in Finland – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
11.2. Seho Kim (Danmarks Nationalbank): Optimal Carbon Taxes and Misallocation across Heterogeneous Firms – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
18.2. No seminar
25.2. Niku Määttänen (University of Helsinki): Furloughs vs. Layoffs: Effects on Employment and Productivity – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
4.3. Jaakko Meriläinen (SSE): Elite Incentives, Nation-Building, and Democratization: Evidence from the Fennoman Movement – HYBRID (TSE LS08)
11.3. Andrei Markevich (University of Helsinki): Soviet Industrialization and American Skilled Labor: Technology Transfer and Productivity – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
18.3. Alessandro Sovera (University of Tampere): Decoding Local Public Finance: The Interplay of the Legislature and the Executive – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
25.3. Mika Maliranta (Labore/UTU): Beneath the Surface: Why do we have the conditions for strong economic growth? – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
1.4. Nicholas Kozeniauskas (Bank of Portugal): Demand Learning, Customer Capital, and Exporter Dynamics – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
8.4. Thang Dinh Dang (UTU/INVEST): Homeland Insecurity and Mental Health – HYBRID (TSE LS12)
15.4. Sakari Lähdemäki (ETLA): Value Chain Productivity and Intangible Investments – HYBRID (TSE LS12)
22.4. Selcen Cakir (UTU): Random Matches, Hidden Pay – HYBRID (TSE LS12)
29.4. Mehmet Barlo (Sabanci University): Anonymous Implementation – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
6.5. Laura Jernström (THL/UTU): Parental Job Loss and Children's Socioeconomic Disadvantage – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
13.5. Jere Jokinen (UTU): Prior Outcomes’ Effect and Risky Decision-making for Others – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
20.5. Eljas Aalto (UTU): TBA – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
27.5. TBA – HYBRID (TSE LS07)

^*^{The seminar list is being supplemented, changes are possible.}

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Past seminars

Autumn 2024

10.9. University of Helsinki Lassi Ahlvik 'Economic impacts of energy poverty' – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
17.9. Sciences Po Oda Nedregård 'The effect of legislative misalignment on the representation of constituency interests' – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
24.9. Stockholm University Sirus Dehdari 'Placebo responsiveness – Does policy align with the preferences of the affluent because they are better informed?' – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
1.10. Uppsala University Matz Dahlberg 'Revitalizing Poor Neighborhoods: Gentrification and Individual Mobility Effects of New Large-Scale Housing Construction' – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
8.10. Uppsala University Anton Brännlund 'Centralized vs. De-decentralized Money: Pre-analysis plan for a conjoint experiment in Finland' – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
15.10. No seminar
22.10. SSE Sampreet Goraya 'Identity, Market Access, and Demand-led Diversification' – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
29.10. University of Delaware Hans Holter 'Taxation and Entrepreneurship in the United States' – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
5.11. Hanken Julia Salmi 'Slow Social Learning: Innovation Adoption under Network Externalities' – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
12.11. VATT Anna Sahari 'Public charging infrastructure and the electric vehicle fleet' – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
19.11. UTU Selcen Cakir 'Delegation and Recruitment in Organizations: The Slippery Slope to Bad' Leadership'– HYBRID (TSE LS07)
26.11. UTU Tuukka Huhtala 'Market Power and the Spatial Allocation of Entrepreneurs' – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
3.12. Carlos III University Ilona Lahdelma 'The intergenerational effects of forced migration on human capital and personality traits' – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
10.12. THL/UTU Jukka Laaksonen 'The Effect of Age-Specific Social Distancing Recommendation on Healthcare Utilization' – HYBRID (TSE LS07)

Spring 2024

Job talks 8.-9.1. at 10.00-11.00.

8.1. Erik Mäkelä 'Housing market and capitalization of information: The case of land leases' – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
9.1. Sander Ramboer 'The impact of mortgage regulation on homeownership and household leverage: Evidence from Finland's LTV reform' – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
16.1. UTU Julius Zachariassen 'Behavioral Implementation Without Unanimity' – HYBRID (TSE LS14)
23.1. UTU Selcen Cakir 'Choosing Your Pond: A Structural Model of Political Power Sharing' – HYBRID (TSE LS08)
30.1. UTU Salomo Hirvonen 'Who is mobilized to vote by short text messages? Dynamic effects, persistence and spillovers in two field experiments' – HYBRID (TSE LS08)
6.2. BI Oslo Christine Bangum 'Mobilization and Intra-Party Power Sharing: Theory and Evidence from Norway' – Zoom
13.2. FCCA Matias Pietola ‘Pay-for-delay, licensing and litigation - An economic perspective to patent settlements in the pharmaceutical industry’ – HYBRID (TSE LS03)
20.2. Hiihtoloma (no seminar)
27.2. VATT Annika Nivala ‘Does Accelerated Depreciation Boost Investment? Evidence from a Regional Policy’ – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
5.3. Aalto University Mitri Kitti ‘Willingness to Pay for Risk Reductions: Comparing Traffic Accidents and Infectious Diseases’ – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
12.3. THL Laura Jernström 'In Sickness and in Health: Job Displacement and Health Spillovers in Couples' – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
19.3. ETLA Hanna Virtanen ‘Education, gender, and family formation’ – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
26.3. BoF Nigel McClung ‘Price Stability and Debt Sustainability under Endogenous Growth’ – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
2.4. University of Jyväskylä Iiro Ahomäki ‘Effect of information intervention on opioid prescribing: A pre-registered nationwide randomized experiment’ – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
9.4. Åbo Akademi Inga Saikkonen 'Does Democratic Backsliding Depend on the Policy Issue? Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment' – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
16.4. Utrecht University Viteslav Titl 'The One and Only: Single Bidding in Public Procurement' – HYBRID (TSE LS14)
23.4. University of Jönköping Kristofer Månsson 'How does the CEO’s gender affect public utilities’ economic decisions?' – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
30.4. Vappuaatto (no seminar)
7.5. UTU Timo Kuosmanen 'Afriat inequalities in convex regression: Past, present, future' – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
14.5. Aalto Prottoy Akbar 'Do I drive further or move closer? Evidence from car inspections and neighborhood sorting in Helsinki' – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
21.5. KELA Tapio Räsänen 'Family policy and maternal mental health' – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
28.5. VATT Ramin Izadi 'Refining Early Childhood Education: Finland’s Two-Year Pre-School Experiment' – HYBRID (TSE LS07)

Autumn 2023

12.9. Aarhus University and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Timo Teräsvirta ‘Long Monthly European Temperature and Precipitation Series and the North Atlantic Oscillation’ – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
19.9. ETLA Terhi Maczulskij ‘Firm-level cyclicality of carbon productivity’ – HYBRID (TSE LS08)
26.9. BOF Tuomas Takalo ‘Patent Policy and Costly Imitation: Evidence from Paragraph IV Generic Entry in the Pharmaceutical Industry’ – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
3.10. Aalto University Claudia Troccoli ‘Evolution of the Child Penalty’ – HYBRID (TSE LS08)
10.10. University of Helsinki Juha Tervala ‘Building the Education Revolution: The Employment Effects of Fiscal Stimulus in Australia’ – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
17.10. LMU Jérôme Schäfer ‘Making Unequal Democracy Work? The Effect of Income on Voter Turnout and Vote Choice in Italy’ – HYBRID (TSE LS07)
24.10. Aalto University Ciprian Domnisoru ‘Planning for Family Succession’ – HYBRID (TSE LS09)
31.10. UTU Eero Mäkynen ‘Earnings Dynamics with On-the-Job Learning’ – HYBRID (TSE LS08)
7.11. UTU Jeremias Nieminen ‘Effects of Regional Exemptions from Labor Market Testing’ – HYBRID (TSE LS08)
14.11. UTU Esther Mbih ‘Understanding the barriers to training enrolment: a descriptive analysis’ – HYBRID (TSE LS08)
21.11. Uppsala University Daniel Knutsson ‘Beyond the Learning Curve: Ambulance Nurse Experience and Performance’ – HYBRID (TSE LS08)
28.11. BOF Juha Kilponen ‘Should central banks’ inflation target be raised?’ – HYBRID (TSE LS08)
12.12. UTU Paavo Okko ‘Introduction to the Academic History of Turku’ – TSE LS08

Spring 2023

17.1. WIDER Patricia Justino 'Civic Legacies of Wartime Governance' - HYBRID (TSE LS08)
24.1. UTU Timo Virtanen 'Heterogenous effects of job loss in a bad economy' - HYBRID (TSE LS12)
31.1. FCCA Jan Jääskeläinen 'Effects of taxi market deregulation: Evidence from Finland' - HYBRID (TSE LS08)
7.2. UTU Salomo Hirvonen 'The Effect of Unconditional Cash Transfers on Voting Participation: Evidence from the Finnish Basic Income Experiment' - HYBRID (TSE LS07)
14.2. VATT Hanna Pesola 'Cost of Job Loss during the COVID-19 Pandemic' - HYBRID (TSE LS08)
21.2. No seminar
28.2. University of Helsinki Timm Prein 'Bailouts and the Maturity of Sovereign Debt' - HYBRID (TSE LS07)
7.3. UTU Kim Ristolainen 'Narrative Triggers of Information Sensitivity' - HYBRID (TSE LS07)
14.3. Erasmus School of Economics Elisabeth Leduc 'Training Jobseekers to Address Labour Shortages: An Experimental Study on Information Barriers' - HYBRID (TSE LS07)
21.3. TOI Kenneth Løvold Rødseth 'Transport effectiveness during Covid-19: Regression discontinuity - StoNED analysis of e-scooter providers in Oslo' - HYBRID (TSE LS07)
28.3. UTU Eljas Aalto 'Net energy and directed technical change' - HYBRID (TSE LS07)
4.4. ULB Nicolas Lagios 'How Demonstrations Turn Voters Against the Far Right: Evidence from French Presidential Elections' - HYBRID (TSE LS07)
11.4. UTU Eetu Kauria 'Business cycles and construction quality' - HYBRID (TSE LS07)
18.4. UTU Kimmo Elo 'Politics vocabulary as an analytical window into political landscapes of the Finnish Parliament' - HYBRID (TSE LS12)
25.4. UTU Kirsi Peltonen 'Building resilience in the aftermath of displacement: the intergenerational effects of a randomized mental health intervention for refugee families - An example of psychological trial' - HYBRID (TSE LS07)
2.5. UTU Susmita Baulia 'Organizational Culture in Public Procurement' - HYBRID (TSE LS07)
9.5. Hanken Topi Miettinen 'Personal and societal conflict of distributive principles and preferences' - HYBRID (TSE LS09)
16.5. Finnvera Mauri Kotamäki 'Credit Constraints of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Finland - Causal Interpretation from a Survey' - HYBRID (TSE LS07)
23.5. NO SEMINAR
30.5. VATT Christina Bratu 'Firm productivity and immigrant-native earnings disparity' - HYBRID (TSE LS07)
6.6. UTU Henri Salokangas 'Mental Health Effects of Cancer in the Family: A Nationwide Register-based Study' - HYBRID (TSE LS12)
13.6. University College London Franck Portier 'Some Inference Perils of Imposing a Taylor Rule' - HYBRID (TSE LS18)

Autumn 2022

20.9. UTU Timo Kuosmanen 'Misallocation of labor and capital in Finland’s business sector' - HYBRID
27.9. UTU Janne Tukiainen 'Personality traits and cognitive ability in political selection' - HYBRID
4.10. UTU Jeremias Nieminen 'Does the Presence of TV Cameras Affect Polarization in Parliamentary Speech?' - ZOOM
11.10. UTU Tolga Benzer 'The Mission and the Brotherhood: The Role of Colonial Christian Missionaries on Contemporary Politics in Egypt' - HYBRID
18.10. Aalto Erkki Vihriälä '(Not) Anticipating Predictable Inheritances' - HYBRID
25.10. Aalto Dai Sheng 'New development of overfitting reduction in convex regression' - HYBRID
1.11. University of Jyväskylä Konsta Lavaste 'Hospital choice and patient outcomes: Evidence from regional choice reform' - HYBRID
7.11. UTU Hannu Salonen Läksiäisseminaari - IN-PERSON
15.11. King's College London Dimitrios Minos 'Remittances and Gender Inequality' - HYBRID
22.11. University of Helsinki Matti Mitrunen 'Labor Market Impacts of a Socialist Curriculum' - HYBRID
29.11. Aalto Maarit Olkkola 'Public Policy and the Child Mortality Transition' - HYBRID
6.12. Independence Day - No seminar
13.12. Labore Ohto Kanninen 'Wage garnishment and labor supply' - ZOOM
20.12. UTU Tapio Haaga 'Effects of Nurse Visit Copayments: Does the Primary Care Use of the Poor Respond More?' - ZOOM

Spring 2022

18.1. (2 - 3 pm EET) Mikko Silliman (Harvard University) 'Childcare, skills, and the labor market'
27.1. (9 - 10 am EET) Jingni Yang (Australian National University) 'Giving According To Agreement' (job talk)
27.1. (10 - 11 am EET) Tuomas Matikka (VATT) 'Discrete Labor Supply: Empirical Evidence and Implications' (job talk)
1.2. (3 - 4 pm EET) Tuomas Pekkarinen (VATT) 'Pre-college skills and wage differentials' (job talk)
1.2. (4 - 5 pm EET) Timo Kuosmanen (Aalto) 'Design Flaw of the Synthetic Control Method' (job talk)
8.2. Jussi Honkanen (UTU) 'Equilibrium effects of a firm entry subsidy program'
15.2. Sebastian Blesse (ZEW Mannheim) 'Does misinformation undermine policy competition? Survey evidence from German citizens and politicians'
22.2. Jeremias Nieminen (UTU) 'Evolution of intra-party polarization: Evidence from 110 years of parliamentary speech'
1.3. Lukas Laffers (Matej Bel University) 'Double machine learning for sample selection models'
8.3. Tuukka Saarimaa (Aalto) 'The Incidence of Housing Allowances: Quasi-Experimental Evidence'
15.3. Helena Svaleryd (Uppsala University) 'The impact of the COVID-19 school closure on adolescents’ use of mental healthcare services in Sweden'
22.3. Jere Jokinen (UTU) 'Belief in good luck and prior realisations in risk elicitation task' In person: TSE LS13
29.3. Aapo Stenhammar (Aalto) 'New Evidence on the Effect of Technology on Employment and Skill Demand'
5.4. Terhi Ravaska (VATT) 'Financial and non-financial work incentives of disability insurance recipients'
12.4. Antti Kauhanen (ETLA) 'Endogenous Career Mobility Within and Across Firms'
19.4. Tapio Haaga (UTU) 'Cost Sharing and Primary Care Use: An Age–based Regression Discontinuity Design' Hybrid: TSE LS06 & Zoom
26.4. Xiaogeng Xu (Hanken) 'Rank and individual welfare: the view from Finland'
3.5. Markku Siikanen (VATT) 'The Effects of Regulation on Pharmaceutical Prices and Expenditure'
10.5. Edvard Johansson (Åbo Akademi) 'Lost mind, lost job? Effect of mental health on being laid off during downsizings'
17.5. Juho Alasalmi (Konstanz) 'Optimal Contracts with (Self-)deceptive Effort reports'
24.5. Mikael Bask (Uppsala University) 'Skill, Status and the Matthew Effect' Hybrid: TSE LS13 & Zoom
31.5. Eetu Kauria (UTU) 'How municipal mergers affect different neighborhoods?'

Autumn 2021

14.9. Leonardo M. Giuffrida (ZEW Mannheim) 'Buyers’ Workload and R&D Procurement Outcomes: Evidence from the US Air Force Research Lab'
21.9. Wilma Nissilä (UTU) 'Predicting Business Cycle States by Cointegration'
28.9. Kim Ristolainen (UTU) 'A Thousand Words Tell More than just Numbers: Financial Crises and Historical Headlines'
5.10. Tolga Benzer (Aalto University) 'Removing Cultural Barriers to Education: State-run Islamic Schools and Female Education in Turkey'
12.10. Francesco Lippi (LUISS University) 'Empirical Investigation of a Sufficient Statistic for Monetary Shocks'
19.10. Ursina Schaede (University of Zurich) 'Quota vs Quality? Long term effects of a gender quota in Finland'
26.10. Salomo Hirvonen (UTU) 'Higher Quality Candidates Enjoying Larger Incumbency Advantage: Testing the Incumbency Advantage Heterogeneity by Differences in Partisan Support'
2.11. Esther Mbih (UTU/INVEST) 'Can a Website Bring Unemployment Down? Experimental Evidence from France'
9.11. Olli Lappalainen (UTU) 'Communication, Deliberation and Sustainability in an Asymmetric Common Pool Resource Game'
16.11. Heikki Kauppi (UTU) 'Estimating Optimal Binary Classification Rules: A Nonparametric Method for Nonmonotonic Density Ratios'
23.11. Matias Nunez (CREST) 'Voting by simultaneous vetoes'
30.11. Aarni Soppi (UTU) 'Price elasticity of demand for prescription drugs in the Finnish drug reimbursement system'- CANCELLED!
7.12. Konstantinos Matakos (King's College London) 'Living through a pandemic: How do economic and health concerns affect social capital and policy preferences'
14.12. Hector Bahamonde (UTU/INVEST) 'Parties and Voters At Risk: Vote Buying and Selling in the Lab, A Prospect Theory Approach'

Spring 2021

12.1. Ville Vehkasalo (UTU) : Effects of face‑to‑face counselling on unemployment rate and duration
19.1. Jaakko Meriläinen (ITAM) : The Violent Origins of Finnish Equality
25.1. Elisabetta Leni (Essex) : Heterogeneity of Incentive Effects on Elicited Guilt Aversion
26.1. Essi Kujansuu (EUI) : Choice Architecture and Transparency
2.2. Francesco Zanetti (Oxford Uni.) : Dependence of Fiscal Multipliers: the Source of Fluctuations Matters
9.2. Janne Tukiainen (UTU) : Pre-Electoral Coalitions: Insights into the Creation of Political Parties
16.2. Kristiina Huttunen (VATT) : The Effect of Home Care Allowance on Child Outcomes
2.3. Riccardo Saulle (Uni. Padova) : Myopic Oligopoly Pricing
9.3. Martti Kaila (Uni. Helsinki) : The Crime Ladder: Estimating the Impact of Different Punishments on Defendant Outcomes
16.3. Matti Sarvimäki (Aalto Uni.) : The Making of Social Democracy: The Economic and Electoral Consequences of Norway’s 1936 Folk School Reform
23.3. Johannes Räsänen (UTU) : Labor Market Effects of Forced Displacement: Quasi-experimental evidence from internal migration in Ukraine
30.3. Anders Kock (Oxford Uni.) : Consistency of p-norm based tests in high-dimensions: characterization, monotonicity, domination
6.4. Arduino Tomasi (LSE) : Brains or Muscles? A Political Economy of Tax Evasion
13.4. Henri Salokangas (UTU) : Spillover Effects of Health Shocks: Evidence from Cancer Diagnoses
20.4. Mehmet Barlo (Sabanci University) : Implementation with Missing Data
27.4. Satu Metsälampi (UTU) : Causal study on the effects of relative income information – interim results from the pilot study
4.5. Erik Mäkelä (UTU) : Housing markets and capitalization of information: Case of land leases
11.5. Efrem Castelnuovo (Padova) : Sectoral Uncertainty
18.5. Juha Laine (Roche/UTU) : Features of price regulation and price setting of pharmaceuticals in Finland
25.5. Ritesh Jain (Academia Sinica) : A systematic test of the Independence Axiom near certainty

Autumn 2020

22.9. Joonas Uotinen (UTU): On the relativity, and ecological unsustainability of subjective well-being
29.9. Martin Ellison (University of Oxford): The Ends of 39 Big Recessions
6.10. Tanja Saxell (VATT): Information integration, coordination failures, and quality of prescribing
13.10. Oskari Vähämaa (Uni. Helsinki): Uncertainty, Misallocation and the Life-cycle Growth of Firms
20.10. Teemu Lyytikäinen (VATT): Tax Compliance in the Rental Housing Market: Evidence from a Field Experiment
27.10. Sander Ramboer (VATT): The Impact of Local Property Taxation on Firm Growth and Location: Evidence from Flanders
3.11. Markus Haavio (Suomen Pankki): Reading between the lines – Using text analysis to estimate the loss function of the ECB
10.11. Shigeru Fujita (FED Philadelphia): Employer-to-employee reallocation
17.11. Guido Ascari (University of Oxford): Non-linearities, state-dependent prices and the transmission mechanism of monetary policy
1.12. Ludo Visschers (University of Edinburgh): Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle
8.12. Anssi Kähkönen (UTU): R&D Incentives, Inventive Activity and Propensity to Patent: Empirical Evidence from Finland