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 (2011). With Niku Määttänen.
Also available as CEPR Discussion Paper 7945.

Exit Options and Dividend Policy under Liquidity Constraints (2011). With Pauli Murto.
Related Matlab code.

Self-Esteem, Moral Capital and Wrongdoing (2011). With Ernesto Dal Bó.

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

Publications

Divisions Within Academia: Evidence from Faculty Hiring and Placement.
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93(3), p. 1053–1062.
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 of Helsinki for economists
FDPE
CEPR
SSRN
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