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 |
| 16.3.2026 Room V002 | Francesca Bastianello | University of Chicago, Booth School of Business | Mental Models and Financial Forecasts, with Paul H. Décaire and Marius Guenzel | |
| 23.3.2026 Room V002 | Daniel Schmidt | HEC Paris | Cap and Trade with Imperfect Hedging, with Bruno Biais, Johan Hombert, and Pierre-Olivier Weill | |
| 30.3.2026 Room V002 | Andreas Schrimpf | Bank for International Settlements | Global Bank Lending and Exchange Rates, with Jonas Becker, Xiang Li, and Maik Schmeling | Supported by the OP Group Research Foundation |
| 23.4.2026 Note: Thursday Room V001 | Emil Verner | MIT Sloan School of Management | Beliefs and Stock Market Fluctuations: New Evidence from the Past Seven Decades, with David Thesmar | Supported by the OP Group Research Foundation |
| POSTPONED TO FALL | Wenlan Qian | National University of Singapore | ||
| 4.5.2026 Room U006 | Yrjö Koskinen | University of Calgary | Belief Dispersions, Climate Risks and Returns on Sustainable Investing | Supported by the OP Group Research Foundation |
| 18.5.2026 Room V001 | Katrin Gödker | Bocconi University | Trading Narratives, with Christine Laudenbach and Cameron Peng | |
| 25.5.2026 Room V001 | Thomas Geelen | Pennsylvania State University | Succession, with Jakub Hajda | |
| 15.6.2026 Note: Room F101 (Väre) | Tuomo Vuolteenaho | National Bureau of Economic Research NBER | Purifying the Equity Premium, with Christopher Polk |