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Matti Suominen's paper accepted in Review of Finance
26.06.2013 Article “Do hedge funds supply or demand liquidity?” by Petri Jylhä (Imperial College), Kalle Rinne (Luxembourg School of Finance), and Matti Suominen has been accepted for publication in the Review of Finance.
Peter Nyberg's paper accepted in Review of Finance
12.06.2013 Article “Firm expansion and stock price momentum,” by Peter Nyberg and Salla Pöyry (Hanken School of Economics) has been accepted for publication in the Review of Finance.
Matti Keloharju appointed Eero Kasanen Professor of Finance
07.02.2013 Professor Matti Keloharju has been invited to take up the new Eero Kasanen Chair established for the Aalto University School of Business. Professor Keloharju has worked as Professor of Finance at the Helsinki School of Economics and at the Aalto University School of Business since 1999.
Jylhä wins OP-Pohjola Best Doctoral Thesis Prize
31.01.2013 Petri Jylhä won the OP-Pohjola Group Research Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Award, for his doctoral dissertation “Essays on the Economics of Hedge Funds”. Petri's PhD studies were supervised by Professor Matti Suominen. Currently Petri is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Imperial College Business School.
Matti Keloharju's paper accepted in The Review of Financial Studies
04.06.2012 Article “Do investors buy what they know? Product market choices and investment decisions,” by Matti Keloharju, Samuli Knüpfer (London Business School), and Juhani Linnainmaa (Chicago Booth) has been accepted for publication in The Review of Financial Studies.
Political connections and zoning of ABC service stations
04.05.2012 Heli Huvinen's Finance Master's thesis “Easy as ABC? Political connections and zoning of service station stores” investigates whether the political connections of the S Group coincide with more favorable zoning decisions for the S Group owned ABC service stations compared to the service stations of their less politically connected peers.
Matti Keloharju's research discussed in The New York Times
27.02.2012 The New York Times article "What High-I.Q. Investors Do Differently" by Robert Shiller that appeared on February 26, 2012 discusses the results of "IQ and Stock Market Participation" by Mark Grinblatt (UCLA), Matti Keloharju, and Juhani Linnainmaa (Chicago Booth).
European Bank Capital Requirement Report
19.01.2012 Professor Vesa Puttonen and Finance students Tomi Fyrqvist, Eetu Isto, Jukka Leponen, Teemu Mattila, Markku Tervo, Tuomas Toiviainen, Kaisa Valtanen, and Katrin Vatiska prepared a report on the European Banking Authority's stress test results of European Banks.