Helsinki Finance Seminar
The Helsinki Finance Seminar is organized by the GSF and the Finance Departments of Aalto University School of Business and Hanken School of Economics. The seminar meets on Mondays during the academic year.
The Helsinki Finance Seminar is supported by the Foundation for the Advancement of Finnish Securities Markets and the Foundation for Economic Education.
Seminars on financial institutions are supported by OP Group Research Foundation.
Time: Monday at 14.45 – 16:00.
Place: Aalto University School of Business (Ekonominaukio 1, Espoo)
For more information you may contact any of the seminar organizers: Mikko Leppämäki (Aalto, GSF), Erkki Vihriälä (Aalto) or Niclas Meyer (Hanken).
| Date & Place | Presenter | Institution | Paper | Notes |
| 8.9.2025 Room 1571 Meitner, Kide (Konemiehentie 1) | Arna Olafsson | Copenhagen Business School | What Makes Depositors Tick? Bank Data Insights into Households’ Liquid Asset Allocation, with Fernando Cirelli | |
| 15.9.2025 Room V001 | Steven Ongena | University of Zurich | The Impact of Pay Transparency on Bank Compensation, Employment, Performance and Opacity, with Piotr Danisewicz | |
| POSTPONED TO SPRING 2026 | Wenlan Qian | National University of Singapore | ||
| 29.9.2025 Room V001 | Andrey Ermolov | Fordham University | Currency Basket Co-Movements | |
| 6.10.2025 Room V001 | Daniel Buncic | Stockholm Business School, Stockhom University | Simplified: A Closer Look at the Virtue of Complexity in Return Prediction | |
| 20.10.2025 Room V001 | Sebastian Doerr | Bank for International Settlements | Affordable Housing, Unaffordable Credit? Concentration and High-Cost Lending for Manufactured Homes, with Andreas Fuster | |
| 5.11.2025 Note: Wednesday Room: F101, Väre | Jonathan Zinman | Dartmouth College | Working It Out: Randomized Modification and Entrepreneurial Effort in a Collateralized Debt Market, with Christopher Eaglin, Apoorv Gupta and Filippo Mezzanotti | |
| 17.11.2025 Room V001 | Jan Starmans | Stockholm School of Economics | Insuring Climate Risks in Integrated Markets, with Deeksha Gupta and Michael Sockin | |
| 24.11.2025 Room V001 | Stephen Dimmock | National University of Singapore | Death of a Salesman’s Manager: Conflicted Supervision and the Dark Side of Soft Information, with Jesse Ellis and William Gerken | Supported by OP Group Research Foundation |
| 1.12.2025 Room V001 | Moritz Kuhn | University of Mannheim | To Have or Not to Have: Understanding Wealth Inequality, with Pavel Brendler and Ulrike Steins |