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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!

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!

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!

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.