helsinki university phd economics

Doctoral programmes

• Doctoral Programme in Economics
• Doctoral School and Doctoral Programmes
• University of Helsinki Doctoral School
• Website https://www.helsinki.fi/en/research/doctoral-education/doctoral-schools-and-programmes/doctoral-school-in-humanities-and-social-sciences/doctoral-programme-in-economics

Organisation profile

Organisation profile.

The Doctoral Programme in Economics (DPE) belongs to the Doctoral School in Humanities and Social Sciences. The Programme's responsible faculty is the Faculty of Social Sciences and its home unit at the responsible faculty is the Department of Political and Economic Studies. The teaching takes place within the Finnish Doctoral Programme FDPE.

The DPE is organized according to the best international practices. It promotes doctoral education in economics by systematically providing courses and seminars based on a programme launched already in 1990.

In their first year, students take mandatory core courses in microeconomics, macroeconomics, and econometrics. In the second year, they choose between a large number of field-specific courses. The subsequent thesis work is supported by regular workshops in different subfields of economics. The thesis is an independent piece of work containing research contributions at an international level.

All teaching in the DPE takes place in English. The Programme's fresh doctors are well placed in international academic institutions, central banks, research institutes, government organizations, and in private sector. Information on the programme can be found at the webpage of Finnish Doctoral Programme in Economics  FDPE .

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Tridib Bose

• Economics - Doctoral Researcher

Person: U1 Research and teaching staff, Doctoral Researcher

Selina Maria Rose Clarke

Peter George Valdemar Elmgren

• Academic Disciplines of the Faculty of Social Sciences - Grant-funded researcher

Person: Visiting scholar, Doctoral Researcher

Niklas Alexander Gäddnäs, Doctoral Researcher

Siiri Emilia Gråsten

• 1 Not started

Projects per year

Game Theoretical aspects of Blockchain technology

Soria Ruiz-Ogarrio, J. (Project manager) & Savolainen, V. (Participant)

Project : Research project

IBEP: Individual Behavior and Economic Performance

Hazak, A. (Project manager), Nagatsu, M. (Participant), Aydinonat, N. E. (Principal Investigator), Vartiainen, H. (Participant) & Paunio, T. (Participant)

01/09/2020 → 31/08/2023

Nordic kidney exchange mechanism

Vartiainen, H. (Project manager)

01/01/2020 → 31/12/2022

Saving the Archipelago Sea by applying gypsum to agricultural fields - Follow-up

Ekholm, P. (Project manager), Ollikainen, M. (Project manager), Punttila, E. (Participant), Ala-Harja, V. (Participant) & Kosenius, A.-K. (Participant)

01/01/2019 → 31/12/2020

Identifiability and Estimation in Structural Vector Autoregressive Moving Average Time Series Models

Funovits, B. (Principal Investigator) & Koistinen, J. (Participant)

01/12/2018 → 31/12/2020

Project : University of Helsinki Three-Year Research Project

Publications

• 26 Doctoral Thesis
• 7 Working paper
• 3 Other contribution
• 1 Commissioned report
• 1 Other articles

Research output per year

Additional public procurements in health services: Lessons from Finnish physiotherapy markets

Research output : Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

Non-Gaussian Structural Vector Autoregression with Unknown Break Points

Research output : Working paper › Scientific

Statistically identified structural VAR model with potentially skewed and fat-tailed errors

Banks, non-bank funding sources and the allocation of credit to firms.

Research output : Thesis › Doctoral Thesis › Collection of Articles

Bayesian Inference on Fully and Partially Identified Structural Vector Autoregressions

• 54 Peer review of manuscripts
• 52 Oral presentation
• 36 Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars
• 13 Academic visit to other institution
• 6 Supervisor or co-supervisor of doctoral thesis
• 4 Membership or other role of body in private company/organisation
• 3 Invited talk
• 2 Public Talks
• 2 Consultancy
• 2 Editor of research journal
• 2 Pre-examiner of doctoral thesis
• 2 Academic visit at UH
• 1 Opponent of doctoral dissertation
• 1 Post doctoral mentor
• 1 Supervision of other thesis (Master's, Licentiate)
• 1 Membership or other role in national/international committee, council, board
• 1 Membership or other role in public Finnish or international organization

Activities per year

RRA/UNU-WIDER Tax Gap Workship

Pirttilä, J. (Attendee)

Activity : Participating in or organising an event types › Public Talks

Taxing Top Incomes in the Emerging World -- Fiscal and Economic Impact under the Microscope

Pirttilä, J. (Speaker)

Activity : Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

Posteriesitys: Building the Education Revolution: The Employment Effects of Fiscal Stimulus in Australia

Tervala, J. (Speaker)

Scandinavian Journal of Economics (Journal)

Tervala, J. (Reviewer)

Activity : Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review of manuscripts

Journal of International Money and Finance (Journal)

Helsingin ylipiston ylioppilaskunnan ansiomerkki leveällä sinisellä nauhalla.

Ollikainen, M. (Recipient), 23 Nov 2019

Prize : Prizes and awards

Jaakko Honko -mitali

Vartiainen, H. (Recipient), 2021

Outstanding scientific article in 2017-2018 in Environmental and Resource Economics

Ollikainen, M. (Recipient), 27 Jun 2019

Primustohtori

Vartiainen, H. (Recipient), 2000

Press/Media

Haastattelu rahapolitiikasta.

Tervala, J.

1 Media contribution

Press/Media : Press / Media

Haastattelu taloustilanteesta

Kirjoitus vientivetoisesta palkkamallista, haastattelu finanssipolitiikasta verkkouutisissa.

• PhD studies

Doctoral studies in economics are organised jointly with Aalto University and University of Helsinki within Helsinki Graduate School of Economics. The programme consists of diverse doctoral courses and seminars which provide a thorough training in the skills required of the contemporary academic and professional economists. All doctoral students are expected to gain a broad knowledge in various fields of economics during the first years of studies when the three main compulsory course modules - microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics - are offered. 

Please find more information on Hanken’s PhD program and the application process under Hanken PhD programme. More information on the PhD programme in Economics can be found on the Helsinki GSE website.

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