Helsinki Macroeconomics Research Away Day


Helsinki Macroeconomics Research Away Day (HMRAD) is a workshop organized jointly by Research Unit of the Bank of Finland and the Macroeconomics group of Helsinki GSE. The idea is to get together macroeconomics (in a broad sense) researchers in Helsinki outside their office buildings while still avoid traveling.

Programme

Date: Thursday, October 30, 2025, 10.15 - 17.00 + beer time

Location: Fabianinkatu 24, room 532, https://tilavaraus.helsinki.fi/en/city-centre/fabianinkatu-24/fabianinkatu-24-room-532 

TimeSpeakerTitle
10.15Juhana SiljanderOccupational Labor Supply and Structural Inequality
11.15Laurence MalafryImmigration shocks in the presence of income effects
Lunch
13.30Eero Mäkynen
Knowledge Diffusion and Innovation Policy: Subsidizing the Licensing of Innovations
14.30Aino Silvo
Corporate Debt Composition, Access to Credit, and Monetary Policy
Break
15.45Jisu Jeun
Firm Expectations, Innovation and Growth (with Georg Duernecker, Marek Ignaszak, and Leo Kaas)
17.00Thirsty ScholarBeer time








Previous research away days



The next HMRAD will be held on Wednesday June 5, 2024, 9.30 - 16.00 in University of Helsinki Main Building Unioninkatu 34 (by the Senate Square), 3rd floor, room U3039

Program










9 June 2023


Programme

  9.15       Peter Elmgren            Industry Growth and Displacement Costs
10.15       Jaakko Nelimarkka   Macroeconomic and Financial Market Implications of Credit Easing Policies

                Break   

11.30       Niku Määttänen        Informational Constraints and Intergenerational Mobility of Education

                Lunch break   

13.45        Michaela Elfsbacka-Schmöller    The Cycle is the Trend: Firm-level Evidence on Hysteresis Effects in TFP
14.45        Oskari Vähämaa       Uncertainty, Misallocation and the Life-cycle Growth of Firms

                   Break   

16.00    Martin Ellison               The Economic Impact of Recession Announcements







The next HMRAD will be held on Monday October 24 2016, 10.00 - 16.00, in Helsinki University Observatory, Argelandander Hall. Address is Kopernikuksentie 1, Helsinki.

Programme

10.00    Fabio Verona: Forecasting the Equity Premium with Frequency Decomposed Predictorss
              joint with
10.50    Marlène Isoré: An extensive margin of financial accelerator: Assessing search frictions on the credit market
             joint with Thomas Brand (CEPREMAP) and Fabien Tripier (University of Lille and CEPII)

11.40    LUNCH

13.00    Allan Seuri: Outdated predictions and US monetary policy
13.40    Aino Silvo: House prices, lending standards, and the macroeconomy

14.30    Coffee break

15.00    Paolo Fornaro: Job Creation and the Role of Dependencies
             joint with Henri Luomaranta
15.50    Seminar ends