Doctoral defence – Joosua Virtanen

Doctoral researcher: Joosua Virtanen
Major: Economics
Thesis title: Essays on microeconomic prediction problems: with applications to firm growth and public procurement
Opponent and university: Associate professor Johan Lundberg, Umeå School of Business, Economics and Statistics (USBE)
Chair: Professor Ari Hyytinen

You can read the thesis here.

The doctoral defence will be held as a hybrid event. Participants can attend on site or via video conference. You can find the link to the video conference here.

The video conference opens 15 minutes before the start of the defence. 

Online participation follows the same guidelines as a traditional physical doctoral defence.

The following guidelines apply to the audience that participate via video conference:
- access to the video conference opens fifteen minutes before the defence starts;
- it is preferred that the audience joins the meeting fifteen minutes before the start of the defence;
- during the defence, the audience’s microphones are muted, cameras are turned off, recording is not allowed, and the chat function is not to be used until permitted by the Chair;
- members of the audience who wish to make comments concerning the thesis can ask the Chair for the floor in the chat function that opens after the opponent finishes.