Events
Seminar Series
FIT researchers are involved in organizing three regular seminar series. All events take place in English.
FIT Seminar Series
The FIT Seminars take place approximately once a month at the Main Campus of the Tampere University.
The events are also streamed, here’s the permanent link to FIT seminars:
Zoom Meeting: https://tuni.zoom.us/j/65804313290
Meeting ID: 658 0431 3290
11th December 2024 at 1:00 – 2:00 pm (EET):
Hanna Virtanen, Chief Research Scientist, ETLA
Theme: Education, Gender, and Family Formation
Venue: Tampere University City Centre Campus, TAU Linna K113
Thursday 16th January 2025 at 3:00 – 4:00 pm (EET)
NB! The unaccustomed weekday and the time of the FIT seminar
Antoine Bozio, Associate Professor at Paris School of Economics (PSE), Director at The Institute for Public Policy (IPP)
Theme: tbc
Venue: Tampere University City Centre Campus, TAU Linna K110
29th January 2025 at 1:00 – 2:00 pm (EET)
Janne Tukiainen, Professor of Economics, University of Turku
Theme: tbc
Venue: Tampere University City Centre Campus, TAU Main Building F001 Lyhty
19th March 2025 at 1:00 – 2:00 pm (EET)
Eva Mörk, Professor in Economics, Uppsala University
Theme (tentative): To Work or Not to Work? Effects of Temporary Public Employment on Future Employment and Benefits
Venue: Tampere University City Centre Campus, TAU Pinni B4141
2nd April 2025 at 1:00 – 2:00 pm (EET)
Max Löffler, Assistant Professor at Maastricht University
Theme: tbc
Venue: Tampere University City Centre Campus, TAU Pinni B4141
7th May 2025 at 1:00 – 2:00 pm (EET)
David Seim, Professor of Economics, University of Stockholm
Theme: tbc
Venue: Tampere University City Centre Campus, TAU Main Building F001 Lyhty
VATT Seminar
The VATT Seminar takes place on Thursdays at 10:30 – 11:30 at VATT Institute for Economic Research in Arkadiankatu 7, Helsinki. Inquiries: events (at) vatt.fi.
Labour and Public Economics Seminar by HGSE
The Helsinki Graduate School of Economics organises the Labor & Public Economics Seminar which takes place fortnightly on Tuesdays at 3 – 4 p.m. at Economicum in Helsinki. Inquiries: Tuomas Kosonen, tuomas.kosonen@vatt.fi, tel. +358 295 519 440
Major Events
Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality (WEI 2025) 21. – 22.8.2025 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!
Workshop on Wealth Inequality, Wealth Accumulation, and Public Policy 23. – 24.1.2025 in Tampere
This two-day event at Tampere University will bring together researchers working on wealth related topics and questions. Daniel Waldenström from IFN will deliver a plenary lecture in the workshop.
Submit your paper or extended abstract by 15 November 2024 – more information on our site here!
Past events and seminars
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, Assistant Professor, 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 (joint with Zhiynag Jia and Trine E. Vattø).
11th October 2023 Elena Mattana, Aarhus University:
Student Aid, Academic Achievement, and Labor Market Behavior: Grants or Loans? (Joint with Juanna S. Joensen, University of Chicago).
13th September 2023 Kristiina Huttunen, Aalto University:
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:
Incentivizing active transport through health information: evidence from a RCT (joint work with Lassi Ahlvik)
24th May 2023 Mette Ejrnæs, University of Copenhagen:
When Death was Postponed: The Effect of HIV Medication on Work, Savings, and Marriage.
Authors: Mette Ejrnæs, Esteban Garcıa-Miralles, Mette Gørtz and Petter Lundborg.
3rd May 2023 Sarah Clifford, Associate Professor at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow at St Hugh’s College:
The multinational advantage: Access to debt. (Joint with Jakob Miethe from the University of Munich, LMU)
22th March 2023 John Kennes, Associate Professor, Aarhus University:
Parental choices and the Copenhagen daycare assignment
15th March 2023 Markus Jäntti, Professor, Stockholm University:
Child poverty, labour markets and public policy in rich countries
(written jointly with Bruce Bradbury of the University of New South Wales in Australia)
8 February 2023 Terhi Ravaska, Tampere University:
Wage garnishment and labor supply
16 December 2022 Teemu Lyytikäinen, VATT Institute for Economic Research:
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:
The Effect of Minimum Wage Policies on the Wage and Occupational Structure of Establishments
5 October 2022 Hanna Pesola, VATT Institute for Economic Research:
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:
Job Amenities in the Market for CEOs
29 March 2022 Peter Matthews, Middlebury College, Aalto University / Helsinki GSE:
Income Rank and Individual Welfare: Experimental Evidence