Helinä Laakkonen
PhD student, University of Jyväskylä, School of Business and Economics
GS fellow, Finnish Doctoral Programme in Economics
Papers:
Laakkonen H. (2007) "Exchange Rate Volatility, Macro Announcements and Choice of the Intraday Seasonality Filtering Method"
BoF Discussion Paper 23/2007
Laakkonen H. (2007) "The Impact of Macroeconomics News on Exchange Rate Volatility" Finnish Ecoonomic Papers Vol 20 No 1
Laakkonen H. (2004) "The Impact of Macroeconomics News on Exchange Rate Volatility" BoF Discussion Paper 24/2004
Work in progress:
"Asymmetric News Effects on Exchange Rate Volatility: Good vs. Bad News in Good vs. Bad Times" (with Markku Lanne)
"The Asymmetric News Impact on Exchange Rate Volatility"
"Do Investors React to New Information or Just to Announcements?" (with Markku Lanne)
"How Often do Prices Change in Finland? Micro-Level Evidence from the CPI" (with Jouko Vilmunen)
"Estimating Hazard Functions for the Duration of Price Spells Using Micro-Level CPI-Data from Finland" (with Jouko Vilmunen)
Contacts:
helina(at)jyu.fi
+358 (0)40 754 2781
HECER/FDPE
P.O. Box 17
00014 University of Helsinki
FINLAND