Ongoing teaching and teaching connections

University of Turku

• My main research activities are related to statistics and specifically in econometrics and time series analysis. See details: UTU Econometrics website. The core courses include 3 time series analysis courses, macroeconometrics and 2 courses on advanced regression analysis and statistical learning

• In econometrics field, we have organized a course curriculum for PhD students both in macroeconometrics and financial econometrics, including connections to the national level Finnish Doctoral Programme in Economics and the Graduate of School Finance

• The list of 16 courses that I am the responsible person. Courses with * have contact teaching each year or every second year. Due to recent major teaching investments and development during the pandemic, some of the courses are available in a continuous basis (autopilot mode, see details below):

  • • Time Series Analysis, 6 ECTS *

    • Nonlinear Time Series Analysis, 6 ECTS (available also for PhD students in economics and finance) *

    • Multiple Time Series Analysis, 6 ECTS (available also for PhD students in economics and finance) *

    • Macroeconometrics, 5 - 6 ECTS (also part of the FDPE/Helsinki GSE curriculum) *

    • Graduate Econometrics 2 - 6 ECTS (only for PhD students in econometrics, can be included in UTUGS studies)

    • Regression Analysis and Statistical Learning, 6 ECTS (included also in to the UTU Graduate School curriculum) *

    • Advanced Statistical Learning, 6 ECTS (with Joni Virta and other teachers) *

    • Statistical Learning: Boot Camp, 1 ECTS (PhD students at the UTU Graduate School) *

    • Linear and Generalized Linear Models, 8 ECTS *

    • Statistics and Data, 6 ECTS *

    • History of Statistics, 2 - 6 ECTS

    • Internship in Statistics, 5 ECTS

    • Discrete Data Analysis, 6 ECTS

    • Basic Course in Statistical Models, 8 ECTS (with Jouko Katajisto and Lauri Heinonen)

    • Mathematics and Statistics in Working Life, 2 ECTS (with Vesa Halava and Marko Mäkelä) *

    • Master Thesis Seminar (Statistics), 4 ECTS (with Kari Auranen, Janne Kujala and Joni Virta) *

    • EXACTUS Book Exam or Equivalent, 2 - 6 ECTS (superior/person in charge of "book club" organized by statistics PhD students)

Other ongoing and connected teaching activities

• In 2021 - 2023, I have also given teaching and taking care two PhD course units in the Finnish Doctoral Programme in Economics & Helsinki Graduate School of Economics:

  • • Advanced Econometrics 3: Macroeconometrics (2021)

    • Applied Macroeconometrics 1 (2022, 2023)

• Before arriving to the UTU, I have given several courses on advanced econometrics and empirical macroeconomics at the University of Helsinki and as an invited teacher at Turku School of Economics 

• During the years 2018 - 2019, I was a fixed-term and part-time professor of Economics at the University of Tampere (taking care of Advanced Econometrics and Empirical Macroeconomics courses)

"Autopilot" implementation (see the link) of the course is not tied to the fixed place and time. In the autopilot, a student starts by learning the course material (including video lectures etc.) independently, and then prepare a term paper before taking the exam. This flexibility is beneficial from various perspectives. In particular, courses are then continuously available instead of only once in two years, which is the frequency of various special courses in the conventional contact-based teaching at our Department.