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Panu Poutvaara
Research Fellow, Professor

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Office #1:

Department of Economics

P.O. Box 17 (Arkadiankatu 7)

FIN-00014 University of Helsinki

Finland
>T: +358 9 191 28797
>F: +358 9 191 28736

>E: panu.poutvaara(at)helsinki.fi

>W: http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/blogs/poutvaar/

 

Office #2: 

CEBR

Copenhagen Business School

Porcelaenshaven 16A

DK-2000 Frederiksberg
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>E: panu.poutvaara@cebr.dk

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Personal data

Date of Birth:  July 5, 1973

Nationality:  Finnish

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Education

University of Helsinki, Department of Economics at the Faculty of Social Sciences
and Finnish Postgraduate Programme in Economics (FPPE): 1992 - 2001.

Doctor in Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland; 2002.

Title of Dissertation: Essays on the Political Economy of Education and Income Redistribution.
Supervisor: Professor Vesa Kanniainen.
Public defense: November 17, 2001.
Opponent: Professor, Dr. Clemens Fuest, University of Cologne.

Licentiate of Social Sciences 1999.

Master of Social Sciences 1997.

Center for Economic Studies (CES), Munich.
Marie Curie Fellow, 12/2000 -3/2001.

Harvard University, Department of Economics.
Visiting Fellow, 9/1999 - 6/2000.

Aix-Marseille III, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Erasmus student 1-6/1997.

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Employment

Professor, Department of Economics, University of Helsinki (temporary position), 8/2005 – Present.

Research Fellow, Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR), June 2002 - Present.

Civil service at the Government Institute for Economic Research (VATT), Helsinki, 8/2001-7/2002: research, co-editor of a book on tax competition.

Researcher, the Academy of Finland (at the Department of Economics, University of Helsinki): 8/1999 - 7/2001. (On leave of absence 8/1999-7/2000).

Research Assistant, the Department of Economics, University of Helsinki: 12/1997-7/1999.

Teaching Assistant in different courses at the Department of Economics, University of Helsinki: 1996-1997.

Trainee at the Research Department of the Bank of Finland, 6-8/1996.

Research project for the Student Union of the University of Helsinki, 1995.

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Publications

A. Theses, Books and Monographs:
Risky Education, Taxation, and Mobility of Labor. Kansantaloustieteen laitoksen tutkimuksia (Publication series of the Department of Economics, University of Helsinki),
No. 81:1999.

 

Essays on the Political Economy of Education and Income Redistribution. Kansantaloustieteen laitoksen tutkimuksia (Publication series of the Department of
Economics, University of Helsinki). Dissertationes Oeconomicae. No. 89:2001.

 

Verokilpailu ja Suomen verojärjestelmä. (Tax Competition and Finland's Tax System.) (In Finnish) WSOY, Helsinki 2003. (Edited with Reino Hjerpe, Seppo Kari and Jaakko Kiander). 

 

B. Articles in International Journals/Books:
“Why Invest in Your Neighbor? Social Contract on Educational Investment”, International Tax and Public Finance 7 (4/5), 547-562, 2000 (with Vesa Kanniainen).

 

“Education, Mobility of Labour and Tax Competition”, International Tax and Public Finance 7 (6), 699-719, 2000.

 

“Alternative Tax Constitutions and Risky Education in a Federation”, Regional Science and Urban Economics 31, 355-377, 2001.

 

“Income Redistribution and Risky Occupational Choices”, Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 2: No. 1, Article 8, 2002.

 

“Investment in Education and Redistributive Taxation without Precommitment," FinanzArchiv 59 (2), 177-188, 2003.

 

“Party Platforms with Endogenous Party Membership,” Public Choice 117, 79-98, 2003.

 

“Gerontocracy Revisited: Unilateral Transfer to the Young May Benefit the Middle-aged,” Journal of Public Economics 88, 161-174, 2003.

"Efficiency and Equity Aspects of Alternative Social Security Rules." FinanzArchiv 60 (3), 325-358, 2004. (with Svend E. Hougaard Jensen and Morten I. Lau).

 

"Citizens Should Vote on Secession", Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 4: Article 23, 2004. (with Essi Eerola and Niku Määttänen)

 

“Dynamic Costs of the Draft” . German Economic Review 5 (4), 381-406, 2004. (with Morten I. Lau and Andreas Wagener).

 

"Educating Europe: Should Public Education be Financed with Graduate Taxes or Income-Contingent Loans?" CESifo Economic Studies 50 (4), 663-684, 2004.

 

“Growth in OECD Countries and Elsewhere: How Much Do Education and R&D Explain?” Economics Bulletin 15 no. 17, 1-11, 2005. (with Katarina Keller).

 

"Social Security Reform and Investment in Education: Is there Scope for a Pareto-Improvement?" Forthcoming in Economica. (with Marko Köthenbürger).

 

C. Comments in International Journals/Books:
“Comment on Wolfram F. Richter: Social Security and Taxation Subject to Subsidiarity and Freedom of Movement.” Swedish Economic Policy Review 9, 75-78, 2002.

 

“Comment,” in S. Cnossen and H.-W. Sinn (eds.), Public Finance and Public Policy in the New Century, MIT Press, 2003.

D. Publications in Finnish
Opiskelijoiden toimeentulo ja valmistumisnäkymät. (A study on the economic and academic situation of students.) Student Union of the University of Helsinki, 1995

Pörssikurssien kehitys Suomessa 1896 - 1929: Uudet indeksisarjat ja niiden tulkinta. (A new stock index for Helsinki Stock Exchange and time before it for years 1896 - 1929). Bank of finland Discussion paper 25/1996.

Mitä opettaa koulun taloustiedossa? Kansantaloustieteilijän näkökulma. (What Should Be Taught on Economcs at School? An Economist's Perspective.) In !Kohti tulevaamenneisyyttä. Historiallis-yhteiskunnallinen kasvatus uudella vuosituhannella". (Towards Pas Histories. Teaching History and Social Sciences in the New Millennium) Ed. Jan Löfström. PS-Kustannus. Gummerus Kurjapaino Oy, Jyväskylä 2002.

Johdanto. Suomen verojärjestelmän ja julkisen talouden haasteet lähivuosina. (Introduction) in Verokilpailu ja Suomen verojärjestelmä (Edited by Reino Hjerppe, Seppo Kari, Jaakko Kiander, and Panu Poutvaara) WSOY, Helsinki 2003. (with Reino Hjerppe, Seppo Kari and Jaakko Kiander).

Koulutus, verotus ja työvoiman liikkuvuus. (Education, Taxation and Mobility of Labor) in Verokipailu ja Suomen verojärjestelmä (Edited by Reino Hjerppe, Seppo Kari, Jaakko Kiander, and Panu Poutvaara). WSOY, Helsinki 2003.

Kansainvälinen pääomaverotus, verokilpailu ja verokoordinointi Eroopen unionissa. (International Taxation of Capital Income, Tax Competetion and Tax Coordination in the European Union) in Verokilpailu ja Suomen verojärjestelmä (Edited by Reino Hjerppe, Seppo Kari, Jaakko Kiander, and Panu Poutvaara). WSOY, Helsinki 2003. (with Seppo Kari).

 

E. Working Papers:
”Social Security Incentives and Human Capital Investment”, CESifo Working Paper No. 438, Department of Economics, University of Helsinki Working Paper 510:2001, CEBR Discussion Paper No. 2000-18 (with Morten I. Lau), 2000.

 

”On the Political Economy of Social Security and Public Education”,Forthcoming in the Journal of Population Economics.

 

”Social Security Rules, Labor Supply and Human Capital Formation”, CEBR Discussion Paper No. 2001-10 (with Morten I. Lau), 2001.

 

“Candidate Quality”, Forthcoming in International Tax and Public Finance (with Tuomas Takalo).

"Do the Augmented Solow Models Rule? A Contribution to the Empirics of Human Capital, Reseach and Development, end Economic Growth", CEBR Discussion Paper 2003-13, (with Katarina Keller)

"What is Left to Residual Claimants? The Empirics of Income Reported by Entrepreneurs and Workers, CEBR Discussion Paper 2003-14, IZA DP 1178 (with Juha Tuomala)

"P(r)aying for Friends: Religious Groups and the Market for Social Contacts", CEBR Discussion Paper 2003-15 (with Andreas Wagener).

"Income Taxes, Property Values and Migration", CEBR Discussion Paper 2003-26 (with Amihai Glazer and Vesa Kanniainen)

 

"Violence in Supporter Clubs", CEBR Discussion Paper 2004-04 (with Mikael Priks).

 

Public Education in an Integrated Europe: Studying for Migration and Teaching for Staying?”, CEBR DP 2004-16, 2004.

 

"Initial Luck, Status-Seeking and Snowballs Lead to Corporate Success and Failure", CEBR Discussion Paper No. 2004-22, 2004. (with Vesa Kanniainen and Amihai Glazer).

 

"Why are More Redistributive Social Security Systems Smaller? A Median Voter Approach", CEBR Discussion Paper No. 2005-01, 2005. (with Marko Köthenbürger and Paola Profeta).

 

"The Economic Costs and the Political Allure of Conscription", CEBR Discussion Paper No. 2005-05, 2005. (with Andreas Wagener).

 

"To Draft or Not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription", CEBR Discussion Paper No. 2005-08, 2005. (with andreas Wagener).

 

"Student Flows and Migration: An Empirical Analysis", CEBR Discussion Paper No. 2005-12, 2005. (with Axel Dreher).

 

"Pareto-Improving Bequest Taxation", CEBR Discussion Paper No. 2005-15, 2005. (with Volker Grossmann).

 

"Social Security Incentives, Human Capital Investment and Mobility of Labor", CEBR Discussion Paper No. 2005-20, 2005

 

"On Human Capital Formation with Exit Options: Comment and New Results", CEBR Discussion Paper No. 2006-01, 2006

 

"Political Parties and Network Formation", CEBR Discussion Paper No. 2006-06, 2006 (with Topi Miettinen)


F. Expository Notes
Lecture Notes on Principles of Economics. University of Helsinki, Department of Economics Lecture Notes 4:2000.

 

The Political Economy of Redistribution and Education: Introduction. Prepared for a doctoral course at the University of Heidelberg. 17 pages.

 

G. Writings in Magazines and in Newspapers Finnish and in Danish:
Several articles in Valtiotieteilijä (A Finnish magazine for social scientists) in 1995 and in 1997.
 

Työvoiman kansainvälinen liikkuvuus ja Euroopan unioni. (International Mobility of Labor and the European Union) Talous & Yhteiskunta 1/2002. A magazine published by the Labour Institute for Economic Research.

 

Ei eroamista ilman kansanäänestystä. (No to Withdrawal without a Referendum) Helsingin Sanomat, April 9, 2004.

 

Nyt pressionsmiddel i EU - udmedelse. (A New Mechanish to Blackmail in the EU - The Threat of Withdrawal). Politiken, April 15, 2004.

 

H. Other Publications and Manuscripts:
“Investment in the Levels of Education and the Effects on Economic Growth” (with Katarina Keller), Conference Proceedings, International Conference on "Russian Enterprises in the Transitive Economics", Economics Department, Yaroslavl State University, Russia, Oct. 29-30, 2002, Part II, pp. 100-101. In Russian.

 

“Teaching, Learning, and Demand Dynamics” (with Vesa Kanniainen and Amihai Glazer), 2004.

 

 

 

 

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Projects
Human Capital, Retirement and Public Policy
Fiscal Regimes, Human Capital Formation, and Structural Reforms in the European Union
Redistribution, Property Values, and Migration
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Research

Research interests:

Public Economics: education and taxation; fiscal federalism; social security; draft; outsourcing

Political Economics: party platforms; electoral candidates; EU constitution; intergenerational redistribution

Labor Economics:  education and migration, entrepreneurship

Diverse: endogenous supply and demand of spiritual services; snowball effects and status concerns; intermediaries in networks; violence in supporter clubs.

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Presentations

Organizer:

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Copenhagen, March 2001.

Member of the Scientific Committee of the Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Paris, April 18-20, 2002.

Organizer (together with Svend Hougaard Jensen and Peter Birch Sørensen) of “Social Security, Labour Supply and Demographic Change”, Copenhagen, CEBR, June 27-28, 2003.


Speaker in international Conferences and Workshops:

“Education, Mobility of Labour and Tax Competition”, 54th International Institute of Public Finance's Congress, Córdoba, Argentina, August 24-27, 1998.

“Alternative Tax Constitutions and Risky Education in a Federation”, ZEW Conference “Fiscal Competition and Federalism in Europe”, Mannheim, June 1999.

“Why to Invest in Your Neighbor? Social Contract on Educational Investment” (joint work with Vesa Kanniainen), 55th International Institute of Public Finance's Congress, Moscow, August 1999.

“Party Platforms with Endogenous Party Membership”, Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Oxford, March 2000.

”Risky Occupational Choices and Taxation with Ability Differences”, Canadian Public Economics Study Group Meeting, Vancouver, May 31 - June 1, 2000.

“Investment in Education and Redistributive Taxation without Pre-commitment”, the 56th International Institute of Public Finance's Congress, Seville, August 2000.

Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, Durham, April 2001.

”On the Political Economy of Social Security and Public Education”, ENTER Jamboree, Mannheim, February 2001.

European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, Paris, April 2001.

The 57th International Institute of Public Finance Congress, Linz, August 2001.

CEPR/EPRU Workshop ”Dynamic Aspects of Public Expenditure”, Copenhagen, September 2001.

”Social Security Incentives and Human Capital Investment” (joint work with Morten I. Lau), Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Copenhagen, March 2001.

"On the Political Economy of Social Security and Risky Educational Choices”, Econometric Society Winter Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, January 4-6, 2002.

“Gerontocracy Revisited. Unilateral Transfer to the Young May Benefit the Middle-aged.” European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting” , Belgirate, Italy, April 4-7, 2002.

“Social Security Reform and Intergenerational Trade: Is there Scope for a Pareto Improvement?” (joint work with Marko Köthenbürger) Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Paris, April 18-20, 2002.

 

Fourth RTN Workshop on "Financing Retirement in Europe", Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium, May 2004.

”The Loyalty of Workers and Human Capital Formation” (joint work with Antanas Anskaitis) Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Paris, April 18-20, 2002.

“Social Security Rules, Labor Supply and Human Capital Formation” (joint work with Morten I. Lau)  XVI Annual Conference of the European Society of Population Economics, Bilbao, Spain, June 13-15, 2002.

”On the Political Economy of Social Security and Public Education”, European Economic Association annual meeting, Venice, August 2002.

“Retiring Europe: An Assessment of Alternative Social Security Rules” (joint work with Svend E. Hougaard Jensen and Morten I. Lau), the 58th International Institute of Public Finance Congress, Helsinki, August 2002.

European Society for Population Economics Meeting, New York, June 13-15, 2003.

“The Dynamic Cost of the Draft” (joint work with Morten I. Lau and Andreas Wagener), Verein für Socialpolitik Annual Conference, Innsbruck, Austria, September 17-20.

“Educating Europe”, European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, Aarhus, Denmark, April 25-28, 2003.

European Economic Association annual meeting, Stockholm, August 2003.

 

International Institute of Public Finance Congress, Prague, August 2003.

 

CESifo Conference: Migration and the Welfare State, Munich, November 2003.

 

"Efficiency and Equity Aspects of Alternative Social Security Rules", Conference on Social Security, Labour Supple and Demographic Change, Copenhagen, June 2003.

 

"Violence in Supporter Clubs", Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, March 2004.

 

"The Invisible Hand Plays Dice: Eventualities in Religious Markets", European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, Berlin, April 2004.

 

"Candidate Quality", Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Warsaw, April 2004.

 

CESifo Public Economics Area Conference, Munich, May 2004.
 

Speaker in seminars and non-international workshops:

  

“Education, Mobility of Labour and Tax Competition”, Workshop of the Finnish Postgraduate Programme in Economics (FPPE), 1998.

“Alternative Tax Constitutions and Risky Education in a Federation”, FPPE Workshop, Helsinki, 1999.

“Why to Invest in Your Neighbor? Social Contract on Educational Investment” (joint work with Vesa Kanniainen), seminar at Harvard University, 1999.

“Party Platforms with Endogenous Party Membership”, seminars at Harvard University, December 1999 and February 2000.

“Investment in Education and Redistributive Taxation without Pre-commitment”, seminar at Harvard University, February 2000.

Seminar at Queen's University, April 2000.

Seminar at CEBR, May 2000.

”Risky Occupational Choices and Taxation with Ability Differences”, seminar at the Université du Québec à Montréal, April 2000.

Seminar at CEBR, November 2000.

FPPE Workshop, University of Helsinki.

”Social Security Incentives and Human Capital Investment” (joint work with Morten I. Lau), CES lunch seminar, Munich, December 2000.

”Social Security Rules, Labor Supply and Human Capital Formation” (joint work with Morten I. Lau), seminar at CES, Munich, June 2001.

”Social Security Reform with A Fixed Factor” (joint work with Marko Köthenbürger), seminar at the Government Institute for Economic Research (VATT), September 2001.

“Gerontocracy Revisited. Unilateral Transfer to the Young May Benefit the Middle-aged.” Seminar at CEBR, December 2001.

”Pääoman liikkuvuus ja verotus” (Capital Mobility and Taxation). Presentation in a seminar on taxation organized by VATT at the House of Estates, Helsinki, January 2002.

“Retiring Europe: An Assessment of Alternative Social Security Rules” (joint work with Svend E. Hougaard Jensen and Morten I. Lau), seminar at the Copenhagen Business School, October 2002.

Seminar at CORE, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, October 2002.

Seminar at the University of Helsinki, February 2003.

EPRU Network meeting, Copenhagen, April 24, 2003.

 “Educating Europe”, seminar at CEBR, November 2002.

"Candidate Quality", seminar at Uppsala University, November 2003.

 

Joint seminar of the University of Vienna and of the Institute for Advanced Studies, January 2004.

 

"Entrepreneurs and Workers", seminar at IZA, Bonn, February 2004.

 

"Citizens Should Vote on Secession", seminar at EPRU, University of Copenhagen, March 2004.

 

Seminar at the Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, May 2004.

 

Seminar at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg, June 2004.

 

Seminar at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, June 2004.

 

Invited Comments

 

Public Finances and Public Policy in the New Millennium, CES, Munich, January 2001.

International Mobility of Tax Bases, The Economic Council, Stockholm, November 2001. 

 

Seminar on Tax Policy in International Framework, The Secretariat of the Economic Council of Finland, Helsinki, June 2002.

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Miscellaneous

Research Network Membership:

 

CESifo Network Affiliate since November 2003.

 

IZA Research Fellow since May 2004.

 

Fellowships:

Jahnsson Foundation Fulbright Fellowship, Harvard University, 9/1999 - 6/2000.

Marie Curie Fellow, CES, 12/2000 - 3/2001.

 

CESifo Visiting Scholar, 10/2003.

Awards in Economics:

Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation Reward for Master's Thesis, 1998.

Snellman Foundation reward for Master's Thesis, 1999.

Osuuspankkien Tutkimussäätiö (Research Foundation of Okobank Group) Reward for Licentiate's Thesis, 2000.


Refereeing:

Berkeley Electronic Press Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy

Economic Journal

Economica

Economics of Governance

European Economic Review

FinanzArchiv

Finnish Economic Papers

German Economic Review

International Tax and Public Finance

Journal of Economics

Journal of Macroeconomics

Journal of Public Economics

Journal of Public Economic Theory

Journal of the European Economic Association

Labour Economics

Public Choice

Scandinavian Journal of Economics


Teaching experience:

Lecturer:


Graduate level at CES, University of Munich:

The Political Economics of Social Security.

 

Graduate level at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg:

The Political Economy of Redistribution and Education.

 

Undergraduate level at the University of Helsinki:

Principles of Economics (in Finnish and in English), Finnish Economy (in English).

 

Undergraduate level at the Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen:

Social Policies and Public Education in an Integrated Europe


Teaching assistant:

Principles of Economics, Intermediate microeconomics, Advanced macroecnonomics, seminar for students writing their Master's thesis, Macroeconomics (graduate level, Finnish Postgraduate Programme in Economics).

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