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A new public economics PhD course was implemented in the autumn 2025 with 18 doctoral students from Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

The course consisted of weekly hybrid lectures, and in-person sessions in October in Tampere and in December in Helsinki.

The goal is to arrange a similar course every two years.

Jussipekka Salo, MSc in Economics and Business Administration, will defend the doctoral dissertation entitled “Essays on Beliefs, Incentives, and Financial Behavior” in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, on 14 November 2025.

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M.Sc (Econ.) Marika Viertola defends her dissertation on corporate taxation at Aalto University School of Business, Department of Economics, on September, 22.

The dissertation provides new insights into the behavior of Nordic and Finnish multinational enterprises and into the effects that tax policy measures may have on profit shifting and what kind of other implications the policies may have.

FIT is involved in strengthening public economics education in Africa. A new public economics curriculum provides African universities with locally grounded teaching materials and open-access resources. The initiative by VATT, HAUS, TaxDev, UNU-WIDER in collaboration with the University of Nairobi and eight other African universities will deliver a full set of materials designed to make public economics teaching more relevant to African policy and research contexts.