Research Unit

Research Unit contact information

  • Telephone: +358 9 1831
  • Mailing address: PO Box 160, 00101 Helsinki, Finland
  • E-mail: research (at) bof.fi 
  • E-mail for personnel: firstname.lastname (at) bof.fi

Esa Jokivuolle
Head of Research

 

Areas of expertise

Esa Jokivuolle is Head of Research in the Research Unit of the Monetary Policy and Research Department.

Researchers

Gene
Ambrocio
Research
Economist

Areas of expertise

  • Information frictions
  • Uncertainty in macroeconomics and finance

Eleonora
Granziera
Senior
Research Economist

Areas of expertise

  • Applied time series econometrics
  • Monetary economics
  • Forecasting

Adam
Gulan
Senior Adviser

Areas of expertise

  • Business cycle fluctuations
  • Financial frictions
  • International finance

Markus
Haavio
Senior Adviser

Areas of expertise

  • Macro-financial linkages
  • Housing markets
  • Behavioral public economics

Mikael
Juselius
Adviser

Areas of expertise

  • Macro-real linkages and banking crises
  • Demographics, real interest rates and inflation
  • Time series econometrics

Maritta
Paloviita
Adviser

Areas of expertise

  • Inflation dynamics of the euro area
  • Inflation expectations

Kim
Ristolainen
Project Researcher

Areas of expertise

  • Banking crises
  • Financial stability
  • Early warning systems
  • Artificial neural networks

Markus Sihvonen
Research
Economist

Areas of expertise

  • International macroeconomics and finance
  • Financial economics

 

Tuomas
Takalo
Senior Adviser

Areas of expertise

  • Financial economics
  • Innovation and intellectual property

Fabio
Verona
Adviser

Areas of expertise

  • Macroeconomics
  • DSGE modelling
  • Financial economics and econometrics

Consultants

Marlène
Isoré
University of Helsinki

Areas of expertise

  • Macroeconomic theory
  • Monetary economics, banking theory
  • International macroeconomics
  • Search and matching theory

Antti
Ripatti
University of Helsinki

Areas of expertise

  • Macroeconomics
  • Monetary economics
  • Econometrics

Matti
Virén
University of Turku

Areas of expertise

  • Macroprudential policy
  • Fiscal and structural policies
  • Productivity, employment and growth

Research Fellows

Guido
Ascari
Research Fellow
University of Oxford

Areas of expertise

  • Macroeconomics
  • Monetary economics

Fabio
Canova
Research Fellow
BI Norwegian Business School

Areas of expertise

  • Time series econometrics
  • Monetary economics
  • Business cycle fluctuations
  • Methods for applied research
  • Fiscal policy

Iftekhar
Hasan
Scientific Adviser
Fordham University

Areas of expertise

  • Financial institutions
  • Corporate finance
  • Capital markets
  • Emerging economies

Other staff

Jonna
Elonen-Kulmala
Senior Information Specialist

Areas of expertise

  • Information services
  • Web content management

Tia 
Kurtti
Department Secretary

Areas of expertise

  • Visiting arrangements
  • Seminar, conference and workshop arrangements

Liisa 
Mannila
Event Coordinator

Areas of expertise

  • Visiting arrangements
  • Seminar, conference and workshop arrangements

Minna
Nyman
Research Coordinator

Areas of expertise

  • Research output reporting
  • Research dissemination