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Postdoctoral Researcher Luisa Wallossek (University of Oslo) spent two weeks on a research visit at the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research in Tampere in May 2026. In this blogpost Luisa reflects on her stay in the Sauna Capital of the World, and shares key takeaways from her stay.

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 tentative program has been published.

Arttu Kauhanen defends the doctoral dissertation entitled “The Lifecycle of Inequality: Childhood Neighborhoods, Redistribution, and Lifetime Pensions in Finland and Europe” at, University of Helsinki, on 28 May 2026.

His doctoral dissertation investigates the mechanics of inequality throughout the human lifecycle. It starts from the formation of opportunity in childhood, continues through the mitigation of inequality during working age, and ends with the realization of different life expectancies and pension wealth in retirement.

An African-Finnish partnership has launched a new public economics curriculum tailored to African universities. The curriculum offers students and lecturers high-quality teaching materials grounded in African policy realities, institutions, and empirical evidence.

Tampere University is inviting applications for the position of Professor or Associate Professor (tenure-track) in Economics.

The university hosts the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research (FIT), awarded and funded by the Research Council of Finland. FIT studies the effects and design of multiple aspects of public policy. The research program is very broad, covering a multitude of topics related to public finance, labor, health, and environmental economics, and industrial organization.

Apply by June, 12!

A large-scale analysis of 110 articles from leading economics and political science journals shows that approximately 85% of published findings are computationally reproducible, while 72% of statistically significant estimates are robust to alternative specifications. These findings indicate strong, though not perfect, reliability in empirical research, with high-quality journals’ mandatory data-sharing policies facilitating verification.

Martín Brun from Tampere University is one of co-authors in the project.

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.