ECONOMICS AND FINANCE SEMINARS IN WEEK 10

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MONDAY

THE JOINT FINANCE RESEARCH SEMINAR
http://project.hkkk.fi/gsf/gsf_seminar.html

Speaker: Anders Vilhelmsson (Lund University)
Title: THE PERNICIOUS EFFECTS OF CONTAMINATED DATA IN RISK MANAGEMENT (joint with Laurent Frésard and Christophe Pérignon)

Time: March 8, 2010, at 15.15-16.30
Place: Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki. Casa Academica Building, Perhonkatu 6, room 501, 5th floor.

The paper can be found at: http://project.hkkk.fi/gsf/seminar_papers/Contamination%20Feb2010.pdf

For more information please contact: Mikko Leppämäki, mikko.leppamaki@hse.fi, Timo Korkeamäki timo.korkeamaki@hanken.fi or Matti Suominen matti.suominen@hse.fi

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MONDAY

HECER: TIME SERIES ECONOMETRICS SEMINAR
www.hecer.fi/Seminars/econometrics/econometrics.htm

Speaker: Lucia Alessi (European Central Bank)
Title: NONFUNDAMENTALNESS AND IDENTIFICATION IN STRUCTURAL ECONOMETRIC MODELS: A REVIEW (joint with Matteo Barigozzi and Marco Capasso)

Time: March 8, 2010, at 13.00-14.00
Place: Helsinki, Economicum, Arkadiankatu 7, seminar room 2

The paper can be found at: www.hecer.fi/Seminars/documents/Time_series/Alessi.pdf

For more information please contact the seminar organizer: Pentti Saikkonen,
pentti.saikkonen@helsinki.fi and/or Markku Lanne markku.lanne@helsinki.fi.

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MONDAY

BANK OF FINLAND: BOFIT SEMINAR
www.bof.fi/bofit_en/tutkimus/seminaarit/tiistai/seminaarit.htm

Speaker: Rajeev K. Goel (Illinois State University and BOFIT)
Title: ECONOMIC GROWTH IN BRIC COUNTRIES

Time: March 8, 2010, at 13.30
Place: Bank of Finland, Rauhankatu 19, 3rd floor seminar room

Please register beforehand with Ms Liisa Mannila ( liisa.mannila@bof.fi, 0108312268). Visitors are requested to arrive at the Bank's Rauhankatu 19 entrance, from where they will be escorted to the BOFIT seminar room.

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MONDAY

HANKEN EVENTS

Speaker: Karel Lannoo (Chief Executive Officer at Center for European Policy
Studies, Brussels)
Title: FINANCIAL REGULATION IN EUROPE AFTER THE CRISIS

Time: March 8, 2010, at 10.15-11.45
Place: Helsinki, Hanken's main building, Arkadiankatu 22, Auditorium Futurum

For more information please contact: Tom Berglund Berglund@shh.fi

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WEDNESDAY

HECER: APPLIED MICROECONOMICS SEMINAR
www.hecer.fi/Seminars/micro/micro.htm

Speaker: Simo Kalla (University of Pennsylvania)
Title: FAVOR-TRADING WITH INCOMPLETE INFORMATION

Time: March 10, 2010, at 16.00-17.00
Place: Helsinki, Arkadiankatu 7, Economicum building (ground floor), seminar room 3-4

The paper can be found at: www.hecer.fi/Seminars/documents/applied_micro/kalla.pdf

For more information please Otto Toivanen, otto.toivanen@helsinki.fi and/or Matti Liski, matti.liski@hse.fi.

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THURSDAY

VATT-SEMINAARI
www.vatt.fi/ajankohtaista/seminaarit/viikkoseminaarit/

Speaker: Jouko Kinnunen (VATT)
Title: INTRODUCTION OF THE NEW INCOME DISTRIBUTION MODULE OF THE VATTAGE MODEL & DSCUSSION OF FURTHER MODEL DEVELOPMENT

Time: March 11, 2010, at 10.30-11.30
Place: Helsinki, Economicum, Arkadiankatu 7, VATTin kokoushuone, 4krs.

The paper can be found at: www.vatt.fi/file/vatt_publication_pdf/wp11.pdf

For more information, please contact: Essi Eerola, essi.eerola@vatt.fi or
Matti Sarvimäki, matti.sarvimaki@vatt.fi.

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FRIDAY

HECER: ECONOMICS RESEARCH SEMINAR (KOLLOKVIO)
www.hecer.fi/Seminars/kollokvio/kollokvio.htm

Speaker: Amil Dasgupta (London School of Economics)
Title: THE PRICE IMPACT OF INSTITUTIONAL HERDING

Time: March 12, 2010, at 14.15-15.45
Place: Helsinki, Economicum, Arkadiankatu 7, seminar room 3-4

For more information please contact any of the seminar organizers: Heikki Pursiainen, heikki.pursiainen@helsinki.fi, Pauli Murto, pauli.murto@hse.fi, Staffan Ringbom, staffan.ringbom@shh.fi