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07.05.2025 | News

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.

Register by August, 15!

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Kwabena Adu-Ababio

12.09.2024 | News

On September 13, 2024 Kwabena Adu-Ababio defended his doctoral dissertation “Essays on Social Assistance and Tax Administration in Selected Developing Economies” at University of Helsinki. The essays in the field of development and public economics discuss issues related to fiscal policy, and how households and firms are affected depending on the policy at play in emerging economies.

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21.08.2024 | News

The Finnish Centre of Excellence in Tax Systems Research (FIT) has a strong presence in the 80th Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance in Prague on 21-23 August 2024. FIT researchers have contributed to 23 high quality research papers presented at the conference.

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08.05.2024 | News

Doctoral researcher Kwabena Adu-Ababio reports on his scholarly visit to the University of Michigan in 2023.

In Finland, many doctoral students have the possibility to include an academic year or semester in another university to their doctoral studies.

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