TSE Economics Research Seminar

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)

• 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

• 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)

• 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

• 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?'

• 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'

•     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

•     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