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Timo Kuosmanen appointed as Professor at Helsinki School of Economics
August 2009: Dr. Timo Kuosmanen has been appointed
as Professor at Helsinki School of Economics (HSE).
The tenured professorship is placed at the Department of Business Technology, in the subject of Quantitative Methods of Economics
and Management Sciences. The Council of Teaching and Research of HSE chose Kuosmanen from 13 qualified applicants, based on
reviews of three international experts. Kuosmanen starts in the new position in August 2009.
Kuosmanen returns back to his intellectual roots at the same department where he completed his Ph.D. in 2001. Having
held academic positions in Denmark and the Netherlands, Kuosmanen returned to Helsinki in 2006, appointed as a professor of
food markets at MTT Agrifood Research Finland. Kuosmanen continues as adjuct professor at MTT on part-time basis (max 1 day per week).
Helsinki School of Economics (HSE), est. 1911, is the largest and leading business school in Finland and a globally acknowledged player in management education. In January 2010, HSE will merge with
the Helsinki University of Technology and Helsinki University of Art and Design to create a new Aalto University. The ambitious goal of the Aalto University is to be one of the leading institutions
in the world in terms of research and education in its own specialised disciplines by year 2020.
Mika Kortelainen appointed as Lecturer at the University of Manchester
July 2009: Dr. Mika Kortelainen
has been appointed to a lectureship at the
University of Manchester, the School of Social Sciences.
The field of lectureship is Environmental and Resource Economics, more specifically, corporate contributions to sustainability.
Kortelainen moved to Manchester in May 2009 from the Aston Business School, Birmingham, where he held a temporary
one-year research associte position after completing his Ph.D. in August 2008. He was first appointed to a temporary lectureship,
but in July Kortelainen was chosen to a permanent lectureship at the same department.
The Economics Department of the University of Manchester ranks in the top 10 of all UK Economics Departments. It is
internationally recognised as a leading centre for economics research, and research-led teaching, across all the core areas of microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics, including development and environmental economics.
The department hosts many externally funded research projects and is the editorial home of the general economics journal The Manchester School.
Over 6,000 visits and 28,000 hits to NOMEPRE homepage
July 2009: The latests web analytics show clear increase in the popularity of the NOMEPRE
homepage. In the one year period July 2008 - July 2009, the homepage received over 6,000 visits and 28,000 hits. In the
past 6-month period, the website has attracted on average 20 visists per day. In the best days the number of visists comes close to 50, but demand is surprisingly stable across all weekdays.
The average number of daily visists has more than doubled since our monitoring of web statistics started in Nov 2007. More detailed web statistics can be found
HERE.
We are pleased to see that the site attracts attention and is considered useful,
and the popularity of the site encourages us to develop the site further and update it more regularly. Thank you!
If you have comments or ideas, we would be happy to receive feedback regarding the site by e-mail to timo.kuosmanen[at]hse.fi.
Tarmo Räty moves to METLA
March 2009: Dr. Tarmo Räty
has been appointed as a senior researcher at the
Finnish Forest Research Institute (METLA), Joensuu Research Unit.
The main field of research in Räty's new position is climate policy in the forest sector. He moves to METLA from the
Government Institute for Economic Research (VATT).
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Mika Kortelainen defends his Ph.D. dissertation
July 2008: M.Sc. Mika Kortelainen defends his Ph.D. dissertation titled "Production Frontier Methods in Environmental Performance Measurement and Analysis"
in 8 August 2008 at 12.00. The public defense takes place at the University of Joensuu, Aurora II building, room AU 100.
The opponent is Professor Kristiaan Kerstens from the IÉSEG School of Management, Lille, France, and the custos is
Professor Mika Linden from the University of Joensuu. Kortelainen's Ph.D. project has been co-supervised by Professors Linden
and Timo Kuosmanen. Further information about the Ph.D. dissertation and the defense can be found HERE.
Mika Kortelainen appointed as Research Associate at the Aston Business School, UK
4 April 2008: Mika Kortelainen has been appointed to the one-year Research Associate position
at the Aston Business School, Birmingham, UK. Kortelainen is based at the
Centre for Performance Measurement and Management, led by Professor Emmanuel Thannassoulis.
Kortelainen has earlier worked as a graduate school fellow of the Finnish Doctoral Programme in Economics (FDPE).
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Kuosmanen and Kortelainen win prizes at EWEPA X conference
1 July 2007: Timo Kuosmanen and Mika Kortelainen were awarded both the most innovative paper prize and the 1st prize of the poster presentation for their paper
"Stochastic Nonparametric Envelopment of Data: Cross-sectional frontier estimation subject to shape constraints"
at the 10th European Workshop on Efficiency and Productivity Analysis (EWEPA X).
The conference was organized at the IESEG School of Management in Lille, France, June 27-30, 2007.
The prize-winning poster can be viewed in the pdf format HERE.
Mika Kortelainen was also awarded with the 3rd prize of the Young Researcher (YR) sessions for his presentation titled
"Semiparametric Estimation of Stochastic Frontiers under Regularity Conditions: A Single-Index Approach". The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes of the poster and YR sessions
were awarded based on the number of votes by the conference participants. Many thanks for all of the conference participants who voted our papers!
StoNED homepage opens
4 June 2007: Stochastic nonparametric envelopment of data (StoNED) is a new frontier estimation framework
that combines the virtues of nonparametric DEA frontier with the stochastic noise term of SFA. The purpose of the StoNED homepage
is to provide the latest news and developments about the StoNED approach. From this homepage, you can download working papers, preprints, posters, presentations, and computation
codes related to the StoNED methodology free of charge. Save the StoNED homepage in your favorites and stay tuned for the latest developments!
Timo Kuosmanen appointed as research professor of Economics
at MTT Agrifood Research Finland
March 2006: Dr. Timo Kuosmanen has been appointed to the newly established economics professorship at MTT
Agrifood Research Finland, and he will take up the position in March 2006. The new professor is expected to provide leadership
and develop an internationally recognised programme in analysing the performance and efficiency of the Finnish food cluster
within the market regime and the global food market. Food markets are changing rapidly as a result of reduced trade barriers
and new technical innovations such as genetically modified crops and functional food products. The new position will strengthen
the expertise of MTT Agrifood Research Finland in the industrial economic research of the food markets. The position is located
at the MTT Economic Research unit in Helsinki.
Press releases: In English;
In Finnish
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Own domain name for the NOMEPRE homepage
www.nomepre.net - please update your links
February 2006: Welcome to the new homepage of the NOMEPRE program!
On this website you can find information about our research activities and plans, as well as our outputs (publications,
presentations, lectures, prizes, etc). We are currently updating the contents of the website, further information will be added soon.
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