Helinä Laakkonen, Research Economist, Research Unit

​Ph.D. (Economics) Helinä Laakkonen works as a Research Economist at the Monetary Policy and Research Department, in the Research Unit.

Helinä Laakkonen received her doctoral degree in economics in 2009. Previously she has worked as an economist at the Financial Stability and Statistics Department as well as a researcher at the Department of Political and Economic Studies at the University of Helsinki. She joined the Bank of Finland Research Unit in 2012.

​Publications in peer reviewed journals

The Relevance of Accuracy for the Impact of Macroeconomic News on Exchange Rate Volatility (with Markku Lanne)
International Journal of Finance & Economics, forthcoming 

Asymmetric News Effects on Exchange Rate Volatility: Good vs. Bad News in Good vs. Bad Times (with Markku Lanne)
Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, Vol 14 Issue 1, 2010

The impact of macroeconomic news on exchange rate volatility
Finnish Economic Papers, Vol 20 pp. 23–40, 2007

Working papers and other publications

Esseitä makrotalouden uutisten vaikutuksista valuuttakurssien volatiliteettiin
Kansantaloudellinen Aikakauskirja 105/4 (in Finnish), 2009

Essays on the Asymmetric News Effects on Exchange Rate Volatility
Jyväskylä Studies in Business and Economics 84, 2009

The Relevance of Accuracy in the Impact of News on Exchange Rate Volatility (with Markku Lanne)
HECER DP 262, revise and resubmit, 2009

Asymmetric News Effects on Exchange Rate Volatility
JYU DP 353/2008, 2008

Exchange Rate Volatility, Macro Announcements and the Choice of the Intraday Seasonality Filtering Method
BoF DP 23/2007, 2007