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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!

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.

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.

The popular WEI workshop will be organised again in Helsinki, Finland on 21 – 22 August 2025 with Magne Mogstad and Stephen Machin as keynote speakers!

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.

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.

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.