Events

Seminar Series

FIT researchers are involved in organizing three regular seminar series. All events take place in English.

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FIT Seminar Series

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Major Events

PhD Workshop on Firms and Public Policy, 9 – 13 June 2025 in Uppsala, Sweden

The Uppsala Center for Fiscal Studies (UCFS) and the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research (FIT) invite you to a workshop for doctoral students interested in topics of “Firms and Public Policy”.

The deadline for registration is 16 March 2025! Read more here.

Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality (WEI 2025) 21 – 22 August 2025 in Helsinki

The popular WEI workshop will be organised again in Helsinki, Finland on 21 – 22 August 2025 with Magne Mogstad and Stephen Machin as keynote speakers!

Read more here – and submit your paper by 30 March 2025!

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Past events and seminars

2nd April 2025: Max Löffler, Assistant Professor at Maastricht University
Theme: Welfare Effects of Subsidizing First-Time Homebuyers

19th March 2025: Eva Mörk, Professor in Economics, Uppsala University
Theme: To Work or Not to Work? Effects of Temporary Public Employment on Future Employment and Benefits

29th January 2025: Janne Tukiainen, Professor of Economics, University of Turku
Theme: Party Factions and Candidate Selection

23 – 24 January 2025: Workshop on Wealth Inequality, Wealth Accumulation, and Public Policy in Tampere. More information on our site here.

16th January 2025: Antoine Bozio, Associate Professor at Paris School of Economics (PSE), Director at The Institute for Public Policy (IPP)
Theme: Follow the money! Why dividends overreact to flat-tax reforms

11th December 2024: Hanna Virtanen, Chief Research Scientist, ETLA
Theme: Education, Gender, and Family Formation

13th November 2024: Jonas Maibom, Associate Professor, Aarhus University
Theme: The Effects of Individual Debt Relief on Health

2nd October 2024: Morten Støstad, Postdoctoral researcher, Norwegian School of Economics
Theme: The Effects of (Un)fair (In)equality: An Experiment Across 40 Countries

11th September 2024: Terhi Maczulskij, Chief Research Scientist, ETLA Economic Research
Theme: Debt burden of job loss in a Nordic welfare state

12 – 14 June 2024: Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar (TAPES) in Helsinki, organised by National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), FIT, and VATT. Programme and more information on the TAPES page on this site.

10 – 14 June 2024: PhD Course on Tax and Transfer Systems in Helsinki, organised by FIT and the Uppsala Center for Fiscal Studies (UCFS). The course was organised in connection of the Transatlantic Public Economics Seminar (TAPES). Read more.

22nd May 2024: Matti Sarvimäki, Associate Research Professor, VATT and Associate Professor, Aalto University
Theme: Incentivizing Integration: Evidence from Social Impact Bonds (in co-operation with Hanna Pesola and Tuomo Virkola)

17th April 2024: Matias Giaccobasso, Senior Researcher, VATT
Theme: Growing Up Over the Social Safety Net: The Effects of a Cash Transfer Program on the Transition to Adulthood

7th February 2024: Attila Lindner, University College London
Theme: Firm Heterogeneity and the Impact of Payroll Taxes

15th November 2023: Thor Olav Thoresen, Senior researcher, Statistics Norway and Oslo Fiscal Studies, University of Oslo
Theme: Explaining declining labor supply responses of married females

11th October 2023 Elena Mattana, Aarhus University
Theme:Student Aid, Academic Achievement, and Labor Market Behavior: Grants or Loans?

13th September 2023 Kristiina Huttunen, Aalto University
Theme: Evolution of the Child Penalty

24 – 25 August 2023 Workshop in Labour Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality in Helsinki,organised by FIT, VATT and Uppsala Center for Labor Studies at Uppsala University. See additional information on our site here.

7th June 2023 Anna Sahari, VATT Institute for Economic Research
Theme: Incentivizing active transport through health information: evidence from a RCT (joint work with Lassi Ahlvik)

24th May 2023 Mette Ejrnæs, University of Copenhagen
Theme: When Death was Postponed: The Effect of HIV Medication on Work, Savings, and Marriage

3rd May 2023 Sarah Clifford, University of Oxford
Theme: The multinational advantage: Access to debt. (Joint with Jakob Miethe from the University of Munich, LMU)

22th March 2023 John Kennes, Aarhus University
Theme: Parental choices and the Copenhagen daycare assignment

15th March 2023 Markus Jäntti, Stockholm University
Theme: Child poverty, labour markets and public policy in rich countries

8 February 2023 Terhi Ravaska, Tampere University
Theme: Wage garnishment and labor supply

16 December 2022 Teemu Lyytikäinen, VATT Institute for Economic Research
Theme: The impact of mortgage regulation on homeownership and household leverage (joint with Essi Eerola and Sander Ramboer)

28 October 2022 Eliza Forsythe, University of Illinois
Theme: The Effect of Minimum Wage Policies on the Wage and Occupational Structure of Establishments

5 October 2022 Hanna Pesola, VATT Institute for Economic Research
Theme: Costs of Job Loss during the COVID-19 Pandemic

1 – 2 September 2022 FIT Public Launch and a research seminar in Tampere, see the programme
The transcript of the keynote speach by Joel Slemrod on What We Know About Tax Systems, How We Know It, and What We Still Need to Know? is available on our site here.

31 May – 3 June 2022 PhD Course on Public Economics in Helsinki, organised by FIT and the Uppsala Center for Fiscal Studies (UCFS).

4 May 2022 Ran Sun Lyng, University of Toronto
Theme: Job Amenities in the Market for CEOs

29 March 2022 Peter Matthews, Middlebury College, Aalto University / Helsinki GSE
Theme: Income Rank and Individual Welfare: Experimental Evidence