Major events

Welcome to the fourth annual Nordic Public Policy Symposium organised by FIT in Helsinki on 10 -11 December! We are pleased and happy to have Stefanie Stantcheva from Harvard University as the keynote speaker of the event.

A call for papers will be opened after the summer.

The fourth Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality (WEI IV) will be organized in Uppsala, Sweden, on September 4 – 5, 2026. The workshop has secured an outstanding lineup of speakers, including Simon Jäger and Anna Salomons as keynote speakers, and Lena Hensvik and Alexander Willén as invited speakers.

In the call for papers, 123 research papers were received – thank you for excellent submissions! The authors of accepted papers will be notified in May.

Almost 70 economists from across Europe gathered in Helsinki on 21–22 August 2025 for the third Workshop in Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality (WEI 2025). The two-day event featured keynote lectures by Stephen Machin (LSE) and Magne Mogstad (University of Chicago), alongside a rich programme of sessions and flash talks presenting recent research. Discussions focused on wages, employment, and inequality, with lively exchanges between senior and early-career researchers underscoring the workshop’s reputation as one of the high-quality forums in labor economics in Europe.

FIT organises an international “Wealth Workshop” on January 23 – 24, 2025 at Tampere University.

Daniel Waldenström from IFN will deliver a plenary lecture in the workshop.

The event is by invitation only.

Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar TAPES: Tax and Transfer Systems is organised in Helsinki, Finland on 12 – 14 June 2024 by NBER and VATT.

The seminar is by invitation only.

The Workshop in Labour Economics: Wages, Employment and Inequality was organised on 24 – 25 August 2023 in Helsinki. The keynotes speakers were Attila Lindner and Andrea Weber. The seminar was fully booked.

The next WEI conference in Helsinki is scheduled for 2025 (tbc).

Have a look at the complete programme of the Launch on 1-2 September in Tampere.