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Take part in the anonymous survey on consumers’ grocery shopping preferences!

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.

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.

M.Sc.Econ., MA Satu Metsälampi will defend her doctoral research” Essays on behavioral public economics” at University of Turku on May, 30.

The essays discuss the consequences of social preferences.

Join a brand new public economics PhD course in the autumn 2025!

The course consists of weekly 2-hour hybrid sessions from September to November, and in-person sessions in October in Tampere and in December in Helsinki.

The course is organized jointly by University of Helsinki and Tampere University, in collaboration with Uppsala University. Nordic Tax Reseach Council has co-funded the course implementation.

Kimmo Palanne defends his dissertation, Essays on Transportation and the Environment, at Aalto University on March 21, 2025. The research indicates that lowering public transport fares in the Helsinki metropolitan area reduced car use and CO2 emissions. However, the measure was expensive in terms of cost per tonne of CO2 reduced compared to other climate actions.

FIT is inviting proposals for applications to the EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions program!

Are you a postdoc with high ambitions, working on topics connected to FIT research, and interested in joining our team through the program? Send us a brief proposal for an application to the program by 23rd April!

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!

Only a small fraction of retail trade companies opted to pay newly hired workers under the age of 25 subminimum wages, after policy change. This finding suggests that prevailing wage norms significantly influence firms’ wage setting.