Professor of Economics

Current research interests: ethics and economics, entrepreneurship, public finance, corporate finance, shadow economies and morality, socio psychology.

Career in brief:

I studied at the London School of Economics in 1972-73, working within macroeconomic theory and monetary economics, topics that I was also teaching as Visiting Assistant Professor at Brown University and Washington State University in 1977-79. Most of my academic life, I have been working at the University of Helsinki. In research, I subsequently moved to dynamic investment models, including tax effects and I started to teach corporate finance. Later, I have given some courses at Uppsala University, University of Munich and at Hamburg University. I am a research fellow at CESifo in Munich.

I like singing, hiking, skiing, dancing, summer cottage, weissbeer, good food, badminton, ping-pong, home and abroad. I write and publish short stories and novels. I have produced a cd on the music of the 1960s.