Contact Information at Aalto University.
Note: what used to be known as the Helsinki School of Economics became, due to a merger of universities, The Aalto University School of Economics on January 1, 2010.

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Research papers

Income Distribution and Housing Prices: An Assignment Model Approach (2010). With Niku Määttänen.
Also available as CEPR Discussion Paper 7945.

Exit Options and Dividend Policy under Liquidity Constraints (2010). With Pauli Murto.
Matlab code for solving the firm's optimal policy: basic model and model with costly external financing.

Self-Esteem, Moral Capital and Wrongdoing (2008). With Ernesto Dal Bó.

Overworked and Overpaid: Failure in the Market for Job Experience (2009).

Career-Hopping: Learning and Turnover in an Imperfect Labor Market (2006).

Publications

Divisions Within Academia: Evidence from Faculty Hiring and Placement.
Forthcoming in the Review of Economics and Statistics.
Hiring/Placement matrix for economics in 2004: HiringMatrix.csv.
Data for other disciplines is available upon request.

Superstars and Mediocrities: Market Failure in the Discovery of Talent.
Review of Economic Studies, 2009, 76(2), p. 829-850.
An earlier version circulated under the title “Mediocrity in Talent Markets.”
Web appendix: A model with gradual learning.

The Difference that CEOs Make: An Assignment Model Approach
American Economic Review, 2008, 98(3), p. 642-668.
The data is available upon request.

Transfer Fee Regulations and Player Development.
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2006, 4(5), p. 957-987.
Accompanying calculations and extensions (.nb file)

Does Trade Raise Income? Evidence from the Twentieth Century. With Douglas A. Irwin.
Journal of International Economics, 2002, 58(1), p. 1-18.
The data is available upon request.

Other

HECER Seminar  |  Map for visitors to HECER
FDPE (Finnish Doctoral Program in Economics)
SSRN
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