The Department of Economics of the University of Turku holds a weekly seminar every Tuesday from 16:00-17:00 at the Turku School of Economics.
Note: In Spring 2025, seminars are held mainly in a hybrid format (with a few exceptions). All seminars can be accessed through the Zoom link
https://utu.zoom.us/j/63693197591
Seminars – Spring 2025
- 13.1. [hybrid, LS07] Toan Huynh (QMUL): Sanctions and Knowledge Spillovers
- 21.1. [hybrid, LS07] Tuomas Kari (LSE): Founders’ Flair: The Role of Personality Traits in Attracting Top Talent
- 28.1. [hybrid, LS07] Jeremias Nieminen (Labore/UTU): The Role of Homeownership in Shaping Geographic Voting Preferences and Spatial Inequality
- 4.2. [hybrid, LS07] Riku Buri (KKV): The Effect of Mergers on Prices: Evidence from Five Approved Mergers in Finland
- 11.2. [hybrid, LS07] Seho Kim (Danmarks Nationalbank): Optimal Carbon Taxes and Misallocation across Heterogeneous Firms
- 18.2. No seminar
- 25.2. [hybrid, LS07] Niku Määttänen (University of Helsinki): Furloughs vs. Layoffs: Effects on Employment and Productivity
- 4.3. [hybrid, LS08] Jaakko Meriläinen (SSE): Elite Incentives, Nation-Building, and Democratization: Evidence from the Fennoman Movement
- 11.3 [hybrid, LS07] Andrei Markevich (University of Helsinki): Soviet Industrialization and American Skilled Labor: Technology Transfer and Productivity
- 18.3. [hybrid, LS07] Alessandro Sovera (University of Tampere): Decoding Local Public Finance: The Interplay of the Legislature and the Executive
- 25.3. [hybrid, LS07] Mika Maliranta (Labore/UTU): TBA
- 1.4. [hybrid, LS07] Nicholas Kozeniauskas (Bank of Portugal): Demand Learning, Customer Capital, and Exporter Dynamics
- 8.4. [hybrid, LS12] Thang Dinh Dang (UTU/INVEST): Homeland Insecurity and Mental Health
- 15.4. [hybrid, LS12] Sakari Lähdemäki (ETLA): Value Chain Productivity and Intangible Investments
- 22.4. [hybrid, LS12] Selcen Cakir (UTU): Random Matches, Hidden Pay
- 29.4. [hybrid, LS07] Mehmet Barlo (Sabanci University): Anonymous Implementation
- 6.5. [hybrid, LS07] Laura Jernström (THL/UTU): Parental Job Loss and Children’s Socioeconomic Disadvantage
- 13.5. [hybrid, LS07] Tim Köhler (University of Cape Town/UNU WIDER): The labour market effects of cash transfers to the unemployed: Evidence from South Africa
- 20.5. [hybrid, LS07] Eljas Aalto (UTU): Carbon Taxes vs. Carbon Sinks: Optimal Forest Regulation in General Equilibrium
- 27.5. [hybrid, LS07] Sebastian Pantoja Barrios (University of Amsterdam/UNU WIDER): Taxation, political participation, and public goods provision in Colombia’s conflict-affected regions
- 10.6. [hybrid, LS07] Jérôme Schäfer (LMU): Voting Rules, Turnout, and Economic Policies
Seminars – Autumn 2024
- 10.9. [hybrid, LS07] Lassi Ahlvik (University of Helsinki): Economic impacts of energy poverty
- 17.9. [hybrid, LS07] Oda Nedregård (Sciences Po): The effect of legislative misalignment on the representation of constituency interests
- 24.9. [hybrid, LS07] Sirus Dehdari (Stockholm University): Placebo responsiveness – Does policy align with the preferences of the affluent because they are better informed?
- 1.10. [hybrid, LS07] Matz Dahlberg (Uppsala University): Revitalizing Poor Neighborhoods: Gentrification and Individual Mobility Effects of New Large-Scale Housing Construction
- 8.10. [hybrid, LS07] Anton Brännlund (Uppsala University): Centralized vs. De-decentralized Money: Pre-analysis plan for a conjoint experiment in Finland
- 15.10. No seminar
- 22.10. [hybrid, LS07] Sampreet Goraya (SSE): Identity, Market Access, and Demand-led Diversification
- 29.10. [hybrid, LS07] Hans Holter (University of Delaware): Taxation and Entrepreneurship in the United States
- 5.11. [hybrid, LS07] Julia Salmi (Hanken) Slow Social Learning: Innovation Adoption under Network Externalities
- 12.11. [hybrid, LS07] Anna Sahari (VATT) Public charging infrastructure and the electric vehicle fleet
- 19.11. [hybrid, LS07] Selcen Cakir (UTU) Delegation and Recruitment in Organizations: The Slippery Slope to Bad’ Leadership
- 26.11. [hybrid, LS07] Tuukka Huhtala (UTU) Market Power and the Spatial Allocation of Entrepreneurs
Seminars – Spring 2024
- 8.1. [hybrid, LS07] Erik Mäkelä (UTU): Housing market and capitalization of information: The case of land leases (Job talk)
- 9.1. [hybrid, LS07] Sander Ramboer (VATT): The impact of mortgage regulation on homeownership and household leverage: Evidence from Finland’s LTV reform (Job talk)
- 16.1. [hybrid, LS07] Julius Zachariassen (UTU): Behavioral Implementation Without Unanimity
- 23.1. [hybrid, LS08] Selcen Cakir : Choosing Your Pond: A Structural Model of Political Power Sharing
- 30.1. [hybrid, LS08] Salomo Hirvonen (UTU): Who is mobilized to vote by short text messages? Dynamic effects, persistence and spillovers in two field experiments
- 6.2. [zoom] Christine Bangum (BI Oslo): Mobilization and Intra-Party Power Sharing: Theory and Evidence from Norway
- 13.2. [hybrid, LS03] Matias Pietola (FCCA): Pay-for-delay, licensing and litigation – An economic perspective to patent settlements in the pharmaceutical industry
- 20.2. Winter Holiday – No Seminar
- 27.2. [hybrid, LS07] Annika Nivala (VATT): Does Accelerated Depreciation Boost Investment? Evidence from a Regional Policy
- 5.3. [hybrid, LS07] Mitri Kitti (Aalto): Willingness to Pay for Risk Reductions: Comparing Traffic Accidents and Infectious Diseases
- 12.3. [hybrid, LS07] Laura Jernström (THL) In Sickness and in Health: Job Displacement and Health Spillovers in Couples
- 19.3. [hybrid, LS07] Hanna Virtanen (ETLA): Education, gender, and family formation
- 26.3. [hybrid, LS07] Nigel McClung (Bank of Finland): Price Stability and Debt Sustainability under Endogenous Growth
- 2.4. [hybrid, LS07] Iiro Ahomäki (University of Jyväskylä): Effect of information intervention on opioid prescribing: A pre-registered nationwide randomized experiment
- 9.4. [hybrid, LS07] Inga Saikkonen (Åbo Akademi): Does Democratic Backsliding Depend on the Policy Issue? Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment
- 16.4. [hybrid, LS14] Viteslav Titl (Utrecht University): The One and Only: Single Bidding in Public Procurement
- 23.4. [hybrid, LS07] Kristofer Månsson (University of Jönköping): How does the CEO’s gender affect public utilities’ economic decisions?
- 30.4. Vappu – No Seminar
- 7.5. [hybrid, LS07] Timo Kuosmanen (UTU): Afriat inequalities in convex regression: Past, present, future
- 14.5. [hybrid, LS07] Prottoy Akbar (Aalto): Do I drive further or move closer? Evidence from car inspections and neighborhood sorting in Helsinki
- 21.5. [hybrid, LS07] Tapio Räsänen (KELA): Family policy and maternal mental health
- 28.5. [hybrid, LS07] Ramin Izadi (VATT): Refining Early Childhood Education: Finland’s Two-Year Pre-School Experiment
Seminars – Autumn 2023
- 12.9. [hybrid, LS07] Timo Teräsvirta (Aarhus University and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Long Monthly European Temperature and Precipitation Series and the North Atlantic Oscillation
- 19.9. [hybrid, LS08] Terhi Maczulskij (ETLA): Firm-level cyclicality of carbon productivity
- 26.9. [hybrid, LS07] Tuomas Takalo (Bank of Finland): Patent Policy and Costly Imitation: Evidence from Paragraph IV Generic Entry in the Pharmaceutical Industry
- 3.10. [hybrid, LS08] Claudia Troccoli (Aalto Uni.): Evolution of the Child Penalty
- 10.10. [hybrid, LS07] Juha Tervala (Uni. Helsinki): Building the Education Revolution: The Employment Effects of Fiscal Stimulus in Australia
- 17.10. [hybrid, LS07] Jérôme Schäfer (LMU): Making Unequal Democracy Work? The Effect of Income on Voter Turnout and Vote Choice in Italy
- 24.10. [hybrid, LS09] Ciprian Domnisoru (Aalto Uni.): Planning for Family Succession
- 31.10. [hybrid, LS08] Eero Mäkynen (UTU): Earnings Dynamics with On-the-Job Learning
- 7.11. [hybrid, LS08] Jeremias Nieminen (UTU): Effects of Regional Exemptions from Labor Market Testing
- 14.11 [hybrid, LS08] Esther Mbih (UTU): Understanding the Barriers to Training Enrolment : a Descriptive Analysis
- 21.11. [hybrid, LS08] Daniel Knutsson (Uppsala Uni.): Beyond the Learning Curve: Ambulance Nurse Experience and Performance
- 28.11. [hybrid, LS08] Juha Kilponen (Bank of Finland): Should central banks’ inflation target be raised?
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Past seminars -Academic year 2022-23