Seminar series
FIT Seminars
The FIT Seminars take place approximately once a month at the Main Campus of Tampere University.
The events are also streamed. Here is the permanent link to FIT seminars:
Zoom Meeting: https://tuni.zoom.us/j/65804313290
Meeting ID: 658 0431 3290
Upcoming FIT Seminars
Claus Thustrup Kreiner, Professor at University of Copenhagen and Director of CEBI
Date and time: 16 September 2026 at 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (EET)
Theme: Optimal Redistribution and Tax Enforcement
Venue: Tampere University, City Centre Campus, Pinni B4141
Floris Zoutman, Professor, NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Date and time: 18 November 2026 at 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (EET)
Theme: tbc
Venue: Tampere University, City Centre Campus, Pinni B4141
Tomáš Havránek, Professor of Economics, Charles University, Prague
Date and time: 14 December 2026 at 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. – Note the exceptional weekday and time!
Theme: tbc
Venue: Tampere University, City Centre Campus, Pinni B4141
Andrea Weber, Professor of Economics, Central European University
Date and time: 21 April 2027 at 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (EET)
Theme: tbc
Venue: Tampere University, City Centre Campus, Pinni B4141
Past FIT Seminars
VATT Seminar
The VATT Seminar takes place on Thursdays at 10:30 – 11:30 at VATT Institute for Economic Research in Arkadiankatu 7, Helsinki. Inquiries: events@vatt.fi.
Labour and Public Economics Seminar by HGSE
The Helsinki Graduate School of Economics organises the Labor & Public Economics Seminar which takes place fortnightly on Tuesdays at 3 – 4 p.m. at Economicum in Helsinki. Inquiries: Tuomas Kosonen, tuomas.kosonen@vatt.fi, tel. +358 295 519 440
Past FIT Seminars
27th May 2026: Luisa Wallossek, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Oslo
Theme: Optional Non-Filing and Tax Over-Withholding: Evidence from South Africa (with Luisa Esser, Gereon Mertens, Nadine Riedel)
22nd May 2026: Sophie Cottet, Post-doctoral researcher, University of Stavanger
Theme: Firms Matter: Understanding the Effects of Payroll Tax Reductions for Minimum Wage Workers
20th May 2026: Niels Johannesen, Professor of Economics and Business, SBS, Oxford University
Theme: Does global financial transparency improve tax compliance in developing countries? (by Niels Johannesen, Oxford University; Lauge Larsen, Danish Ministry of Taxation, and Nadine Riedel, University of Münster)
25th March 2026: David Seim, Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, Stockholm University
Theme: The Impact and Incidence of Supplemental Health Insurance: Evidence from Sweden
11th March 2026: Isabel Micó-Millán, Research Economist, Bank of Spain
Theme: The anatomy of the property tax pass-through in rental markets (with Ander Iraizoz and Dario Serrano-Puente)
4th February 2026: İrem Güçeri, Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
Theme: Taxes and Jobs within Multinational Firms
3rd December 2025: Lassi Ahlvik, Professor in Environmental Economics, University of Helsinki
Theme: Pigouvian Income Taxation
26th November 2025: Martin Nybom, Associate professor (docent), IFAU in Uppsala
Theme: Labor-market Drivers of Intergenerational Earnings Persistence
5th November 2025: Johannes Hagen, Associate Professor of Economics, Jönköping International Business School
Theme: Do annual pension statements affect retirement planning?
20th October 2025: Matz Dahlberg, Professor in Economics, Uppsala University
Theme: Does Information Increase Take Up of Debt Relief among Eternal Debtors – RCT Evidence from the Swedish Enforcement Authority
1st October 2025: Charlotte Bartels, Professor for Public Economics, University of Leipzig
Theme: Inheritance taxes and family firms in Germany
18th August 2025: Ferran Elias, Assistant Professor in Economics, Universitat de Girona
Theme: The Extension of Collective Agreements in Fissured Workplaces: The Case of Temp Agency Workers
2nd April 2025: Max Löffler, Assistant Professor at Maastricht University
Theme: Welfare Effects of Subsidizing First-Time Homebuyers
19th March 2025: Eva Mörk, Professor in Economics, Uppsala University
Theme: To Work or Not to Work? Effects of Temporary Public Employment on Future Employment and Benefits
29th January 2025: Janne Tukiainen, Professor of Economics, University of Turku
Theme: Party Factions and Candidate Selection
16th January 2025: Antoine Bozio, Associate Professor at Paris School of Economics (PSE), Director at The Institute for Public Policy (IPP)
Theme: Follow the money! Why dividends overreact to flat-tax reforms
11th December 2024: Hanna Virtanen, Chief Research Scientist, ETLA
Theme: Education, Gender, and Family Formation
13th November 2024: Jonas Maibom, Associate Professor, Aarhus University
Theme: The Effects of Individual Debt Relief on Health
2nd October 2024: Morten Støstad, Postdoctoral researcher, Norwegian School of Economics
Theme: The Effects of (Un)fair (In)equality: An Experiment Across 40 Countries
11th September 2024: Terhi Maczulskij, Chief Research Scientist, ETLA Economic Research
Theme: Debt burden of job loss in a Nordic welfare state
22nd May 2024: Matti Sarvimäki, Associate Research Professor, VATT and Associate Professor, Aalto University
Theme: Incentivizing Integration: Evidence from Social Impact Bonds (in co-operation with Hanna Pesola and Tuomo Virkola)
17th April 2024: Matias Giaccobasso, Senior Researcher, VATT
Theme: Growing Up Over the Social Safety Net: The Effects of a Cash Transfer Program on the Transition to Adulthood
7th February 2024: Attila Lindner, University College London
Theme: Firm Heterogeneity and the Impact of Payroll Taxes
15th November 2023: Thor Olav Thoresen, Senior researcher, Statistics Norway and Oslo Fiscal Studies, University of Oslo
Theme: Explaining declining labor supply responses of married females
11th October 2023 Elena Mattana, Aarhus University
Theme:Student Aid, Academic Achievement, and Labor Market Behavior: Grants or Loans?
13th September 2023 Kristiina Huttunen, Aalto University
Theme: Evolution of the Child Penalty
7th June 2023 Anna Sahari, VATT Institute for Economic Research
Theme: Incentivizing active transport through health information: evidence from a RCT (joint work with Lassi Ahlvik)
24th May 2023 Mette Ejrnæs, University of Copenhagen
Theme: When Death was Postponed: The Effect of HIV Medication on Work, Savings, and Marriage
3rd May 2023 Sarah Clifford, University of Oxford
Theme: The multinational advantage: Access to debt. (Joint with Jakob Miethe from the University of Munich, LMU)
22th March 2023 John Kennes, Aarhus University
Theme: Parental choices and the Copenhagen daycare assignment
15th March 2023 Markus Jäntti, Stockholm University
Theme: Child poverty, labour markets and public policy in rich countries
8 February 2023 Terhi Ravaska, Tampere University
Theme: Wage garnishment and labor supply
16 December 2022 Teemu Lyytikäinen, VATT Institute for Economic Research
Theme: The impact of mortgage regulation on homeownership and household leverage (joint with Essi Eerola and Sander Ramboer)
28 October 2022 Eliza Forsythe, University of Illinois
Theme: The Effect of Minimum Wage Policies on the Wage and Occupational Structure of Establishments
5 October 2022 Hanna Pesola, VATT Institute for Economic Research
Theme: Costs of Job Loss during the COVID-19 Pandemic
4 May 2022 Ran Sun Lyng, University of Toronto
Theme: Job Amenities in the Market for CEOs
29 March 2022 Peter Matthews, Middlebury College, Aalto University / Helsinki GSE
Theme: Income Rank and Individual Welfare: Experimental Evidence