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Managing editor, CESifo Economic Studies, 2010 –
Associate editor, Finnish Economic Papers, 2011 –
Editor, Finnish Economic Papers, 2007 – 2010
Member of the editorial board, European Journal of Political Economy, 2008 – 2010
Guest editor for a selection of papers, FinanzArchiv 62(3), 2006
Poutvaara, Panu (with Mikael Priks), “Unemployment and Gang Crime: Could Prosperity Backfire?”, Economics of Governance 12 (3), 259–273
Poutvaara, Panu (with Axel Dreher), “Foreign Students and Migration to the United States”, World Development 39 (8), 2011, 1294-1307
Poutvaara, Panu (with Kaisa Kotakorpi), “Pay for Politicians and Candidate Selection: An Empirical Analysis”, Journal of Public Economics 95 (7-8), 2011, 877-885
Poutvaara, Panu, “The Expansion of Higher Education and Time-Consistent Taxation”, European Journal of Political Economy 27 (2), 2011, 257–267
Poutvaara, Panu (with Andreas Wagener), “The Invisible Hand Plays Dice: Eventualities in Sects Markets”, Public Choice 145 (3-4), 2010, 483–505
Poutvaara, Panu (with Amihai Glazer, Vesa Kanniainen), “Firms' Ethics, Consumer Boycotts, and Signalling”, European Journal of Political Economy 26, 2010, 340-350
Poutvaara, Panu (with Katarina Keller and Andreas Wagener), “Does Military Draft Discourage Enrollment in Higher Education? Evidence from OECD Countries”, FinanzArchiv 66, 2010, 97-120
Poutvaara, Panu (with Niclas Berggren, Henrik Jordahl), “The Looks of a Winner: Beauty and Electoral Success”, Journal of Public Economics 94, 2010, 8-15
Poutvaara, Panu (with Marko Koethenbuerger), “Rent Taxation in a Small Open Economy: The Effect on Transitional Generations”, International Tax and Public Finance 16, 2009, 697-709
Poutvaara, Panu (with Volker Grossmann), “Pareto-improving Bequest Taxation”, International Tax and Public Finance 16, 2009, 647-669
Poutvaara, Panu (with Katarina Keller, Andreas Wagener), “Military Draft and Economic Growth in OECD Countries”, Defense and Peace Economics 20, 2009, 373-393
Poutvaara, Panu (with Henrik Jordahl, Juha Tuomala), “Education Returns of Wage Earners and Self-employed Workers: Comment.” and “Education Returns of Wage Earners and Self-employed Workers: Rejoinder.”, Economics of Education Review 28, 2009, 641-644 and 648,
Poutvaara, Panu (with Henrik Jordahl, Niclas Berggren), “Faces of Politicians: Babyfacedness Predicts Inferred Competence but Not Electoral Success”, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 45, 2009, 1132-1135
Poutvaara, Panu (with Mikael Priks), “Hooliganism and Police Tactics”, Journal of Public Economic Theory 11, 2009, 441-453
Poutvaara, Panu (with Mikael Priks), “The Effect of Police Intelligence on Group Violence: Evidence from Reassignments in Sweden”, Journal of Public Economics 93, 2009, 403-411
Poutvaara, Panu (with Lars Siemers), “Smoking and Social Interaction”, Journal of Health Economics 27, 2008, 1503-1515
Poutvaara, Panu, "Public and Private Education in an Integrated Europe: Studying to Migrate and Teaching to Stay?”, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 110, 2008, 591-608
Poutvaara, Panu (with Andreas Wagener), “Why is the Public Sector More Labor-Intensive? A Distortionary Tax Argument”, Journal of Economics 94, 2008, 105-124
Poutvaara, Panu, “On Human Capital Formation with Exit Options: Comment and New Results”, Journal of Population Economics 21, 2008, 679-684
Poutvaara, Panu (with Marko Koethenbuerger, Paola Profeta), “Why are More Redistributive Social Security Systems Smaller? A Median Voter Approach”, Oxford Economic Papers 60, 2008, 275-292
Poutvaara, Panu (with Amihai Glazer, Vesa Kanniainen), “Income Taxes, Property Values and Migration”, Journal of Public Economics 92, 2008, 915-923
Poutvaara, Panu (with Andreas Wagener), “To Draft or Not to Draft? Inefficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription”, European Journal of Political Economy 23, 2007, 975-987
Poutvaara, Panu, “Social Security Incentives, Human Capital Investment and Mobility of Labor”, Journal of Public Economics 91, 2007, 1299-1325
Poutvaara, Panu (with Vesa Kanniainen), “Imperfect Transmission of Tacit Knowledge and Other Barriers to Entrepreneurship”, Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal 28, 2007, 675-694
Poutvaara, Panu (with Tuomas Takalo), “Candidate Quality”, International Tax and Public Finance 14, 2007, 7-27
Poutvaara, Panu (with Morten I. Lau), ”Social Security Incentives and Human Capital Investment”, Finnish Economic Papers 19, 2006, 16-24
Poutvaara, Panu, ”On the Political Economy of Social Security and Public Education”, Journal of Population Economics 19, 2006, 345-365
Poutvaara, Panu (with Marko Köthenbürger), “Social Security Reform and Investment in Education: Is there Scope for a Pareto-Improvement?”, Economica 73, 2006, 299-319
Poutvaara, Panu (with Katarina Keller), “Growth in OECD Countries and Elsewhere: How Much Do Education and R&D Explain?”, Economics Bulletin 15(17), 2005, 1-11
Poutvaara, Panu, “Educating Europe: Should Public Education be Financed with Graduate Taxes or Income-Contingent Loans?”, CESifo Economic Studies 50(4), 2004, 663-684
Poutvaara, Panu (with Morten I.Lau, Andreas Wagener), “Dynamic Costs of the Draft”, German Economic Review 5(4), 2004, 381-406
Poutvaara, Panu (with Essi Eerola, Niku Määttänen), “Citizens Should Vote on Secession”, Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy (4)23, 2004
Poutvaara, Panu (with Svend E.Hougaard Jensen, Morten I. Lau), “Efficiency and Equity Aspects of Alternative Social Security Rules”, FinanzArchiv 60(3), 2004, 325-358
Poutvaara, Panu, “Gerontocracy Revisited: Unilateral Transfer to the Young May Benefit the Middle-aged”, Journal of Public Economics 88, 2004, 161-174
Poutvaara, Panu, “Party Platforms with Endogenous Party Membership”, Public Choice 117, 2003, 79-98
Poutvaara, Panu, “Investment in Education and Redistributive Taxation without Pre-commitment”, FinanzArchiv 59(2), 2003, 177-188
Poutvaara, Panu, “Income Redistribution and Risky Occupational Choices”, Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy (2)1, Article 8, 2002
Poutvaara, Panu, “Alternative Tax Constitutions and Risky Education in a Federation”, Regional Science and Urban Economics 31, 2001, 355-377
Poutvaara, Panu, “Education, Mobility of Labour and Tax Competition”, International Tax and Public Finance 7(6), 2000, 699-719
Poutvaara, Panu (with Vesa Kanniainen), “Why Invest in Your Neighbor? Social Contract on Educational Investment”, International Tax and Public Finance 7(4/5), 2000, 547-562
Poutvaara, Panu, Essays on the Political Economy of Education and Income Redistribution, Kansantaloustieteen laitoksen tutkimuksia, (Publication series of the Department of Economics, University of Helsinki), Dissertationes Oeconomicae, 89, 2001
Poutvaara, Panu, Risky Education, Taxation, and Mobility of Labor, Kansantaloustieteen laitoksen tutkimuksia, (Publication series of the Department of Economics, University of Helsinki), 81, 1999, Licentiate’s thesis
Poutvaara, Panu, "Mitä kasvot kertovat? (What Faces Reveal?)", in: Raili Kivelä (ed.): Mielijouhteita kielestä – Jyväskylän Lyseo 150-vuotisjuhlakirja, (Associations from Language – Jyväskylän Lyseo 150 years), Gummerus, Jyväskylä, 2008
Poutvaara, Panu, “Comments”, in: S. Cnossen und H.-W. Sinn (eds.): Public Finance and Policy in the New Century, MIT Press, 2003, 237-239
Poutvaara, Panu, “Comment on Wolfram F. Richter: Social Security and Taxation Subject to Subsidiarity and Freedom of Movement”, Swedish Economic Policy Review 9, 2002, 75-78
Poutvaara, Panu, "Mitä opettaa koulun taloustiedossa? Kansantaloustieteilijän näkökulma, (What Should Be Taught on Economics at School? An Economist’s Perspective)", in: Jan Löfström (ed.): Kohti tulevaa menneisyyttä. Historiallis-yhteiskunnallinen kasvatus uudella vuosituhannella (Towards Past Histories. Teaching History and Social Sciences in the New Millennium), PS-Kustannus, Gummerus Kirjapaino Oy, Jyväskylä, 2002
Panu, Poutvaara (with Andreas Wagener), “Conscription: Economic Costs and Political Allure”, The Economics of Peace and Security Journal 2(1), 2007, 6-15 (Mehr Information)
Poutvaara, Panu (with Martin D. Munk, Martin Junge), “Self-Selection and Earnings of Emigrants from a Welfare State”, IZA DP 4144, 2009
Poutvaara, Panu (with Erkki Koskela), “Is There Scope for Gains from Revenue-Neutral Labor Tax Reforms with Flexible Outsourcing?”, IZA DP 3984, 2009
Poutvaara, Panu (with Mikael Elinder, Henrik Jordahl), “Selfish and Prospective: Theory and Evidence of Pocketbook Voting”, IZA DP 3763, 2008
Poutvaara, Panu (with Erkki Koskela), “Flexible Outsourcing and the Impacts of Labour Taxation in European Welfare States”, IZA DP 3699, 2008
Poutvaara, Panu (with Erkki Koskela), “Outsourcing and Labor Taxation in Dual Labor Markets”, IZA DP 3512, 2008
Poutvaara, Panu (with Niku Määttänen), “Should Old-age Benefits be Earnings-tested?”, IZA DP 2616, 2007
Poutvaara, Panu (with Topi Miettinen), “Political Parties and Network Formation”, HECER DP 80, IZA DP 1918, CESifo Working Paper 1663, 2006
Poutvaara, Panu (with Amihai Glazer, Vesa Kanniainen), “Initial Luck, Status-Seeking and Snowballs Lead to Corporate Success and Failure”, IZA DP 1426, 2004
Poutvaara, Panu (with Juha Tuomala), “What is Left to Residual Claimants? The Empirics of Income Reported by Entrepreneurs and Workers”, IZA DP 1178, 2004
Poutvaara, Panu (with Andreas Wagener), “P(r)aying for Friends: Religious Groups and the Market for Social Contacts”, CEBR Discussion Paper 2003-15, 2003
Poutvaara, Panu (with Morten I. Lau), ”Social Security Rules, Labor Supply and Human Capital Formation”, CEBR Discussion Paper No. 2001-10, 2001
Panu Poutvaara, "Preferences for Redistribution among Emigrants from a Welfare State", World Meeting of the Public Choice Societies, 09 - 11 March 2012, Miami
Panu Poutvaara, "Preferences for Redistribution among Emigrants from a Welfare State", Econometric Society Latin American Meeting, Nov. 2011, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Panu Poutvaara, "Promises, Policies, and Pocketbook Voting”, Norwegian-German Seminar on Public Economics, Nov. 2011, Munich
Panu Poutvaara, "The Optimal Duration of Contracts", 65th European Meeting of the Econometric Society, 25 – 29 Aug. 2011, Oslo
Panu Poutvaara, "Preferences for Redistribution among Emigrants from a Welfare State", Silvaplana Workshop on Political Economy, July 2011, Pontresina, Switzerland
Panu Poutvaara, "The Optimal Duration of Contracts", V. Tax Day of Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Economics, 14 July 2011, Munich
Panu Poutvaara, "Preferences for Redistribution among Emigrants from a Welfare State", CESifo Employment and Social Protection Area Conference, 20 - 21 May 2011, Munich
Panu Poutvaara, "Elite Education Abroad and Social Reproduction", Interdisciplinary conference “Migration: Economic Change, Social Challenge” organized jointly by NORFACE and CReAM, 06 – 09 Apr. 2011, London
Panu Poutvaara, "The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and their Voters Rewards It", Midwest Political Science Association annual conference, 31 Mar. – 03 Apr. 2011, Chicago
Panu Poutvaara, "What Motivates Emigrants from a Welfare State?", First TEMPO Conference on International Migration, Institute for International Integration Studies - Trinity College Dublin, 28 - 29 Oct. 2010, Dublin, Ireland
Panu Poutvaara, International Institute of Public Finance's Congress, Aug. 2010, Uppsala
Panu Poutvaara, CESifo Employment and Social Protection Area Conference, May 2010, Munich
Panu Poutvaara, Workshop on Globalization, Education and Taxation, May 2010, Konstanz
Panu Poutvaara, CESifo Public Sector Area Conference, Apr. 2010, Munich
Panu Poutvaara, Annual Meeting of Finnish Economists, Febr. 2010, Tampere
Panu Poutvaara, International Institute of Public Finance Congress, Aug. 2009, Cape Town
Panu Poutvaara, Brunel Symposium on Party and Electoral Competition, June 2009, Uxbridge (London)
Panu Poutvaara, Taxation, Public Provision and the Future of the Nordic Welfare Model, June 2009, Helsinki
Panu Poutvaara, CESifo Employment and Social Protection Area Conference, May 2009, Munich
Panu Poutvaara, CESifo Public Sector Area Conference, Apr. 2009, Munich
Panu Poutvaara, HECER Workshop on Political Economy, March 2009, Helsinki
Panu Poutvaara, Annual Meeting of Finnish Economists, Febr. 2009, Turku
Panu Poutvaara, CESifo/Leibniz Conference on "Reform of the Welfare State", Nov. 2008, Munich
Panu Poutvaara, Nordic Workshop on Tax Policy and Public Economics, Oct. 2008, Uppsala
Panu Poutvaara, IZA Workshop: The Economics of Labor Income Taxation, Sept. 2008, Bonn
Panu Poutvaara, European Economic Association annual meeting, Aug. 2008, Milan
Panu Poutvaara, International Institute of Public Finance Congress, Aug. 2008, Maastricht
Panu Poutvaara, IFN Workshop on Privatization, June 2008, Vaxholm, Sweden
Panu Poutvaara, CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, May 2008, Munich
Panu Poutvaara, CESifo Public Sector Area Conference, Apr. 2008, Munich
Panu Poutvaara, European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, Mar. 2008, Jena
Panu Poutvaara, Annual Meeting of Finnish Economists, Febr. 2008, Jyväskylä
Panu Poutvaara, European Economic Association annual meeting, Aug. 2007, Budapest
Panu Poutvaara, Silvaplana Workshop on Political Economy, July 2007, Silvaplana, Switzerland
Panu Poutvaara, CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, May 2007, Munich
Panu Poutvaara, CESifo Public Sector Area Conference, Apr. 2007, Munich
Panu Poutvaara, World Meeting of the Public Choice Societies, Mar. 2007, Amsterdam
Panu Poutvaara, Annual Meeting of Finnish Economists, Febr. 2007, Lappeenranta
Panu Poutvaara, Nordic Workshop on Tax Policy and Public Economics, Nov. 2006, Bergen
Panu Poutvaara, International Institute of Public Finance's Congress, Aug. 2006, Paphos, Cyprus
Panu Poutvaara, Public Economic Theory Meeting, Aug. 2006, Hanoi
Panu Poutvaara, CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, May 2006, Munich
Panu Poutvaara, Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology research seminar, May 2006, Reykholt, Iceland
Panu Poutvaara, CESifo Public Sector Area Conference, Apr. 2006, Munich
Panu Poutvaara, Annual Meeting of Finnish Economists, Febr. 2006, Helsinki
Panu Poutvaara, IZA Annual Migration Meeting (AM2), Sept. 2005, Chicago
Panu Poutvaara, International Institute of Public Finance Congress, Aug. 2005, Jeju Island in South Korea
Panu Poutvaara, Public Economic Theory Meeting, June 2005, Marseille
Panu Poutvaara, Conference on policy competition and coordination, June 2005, Utrecht
Panu Poutvaara, CEBR-CESifo conference on Pension Reform, June 2005, Copenhagen
Panu Poutvaara, CESifo Public Sector Area Conference, Apr. 2005, Munich
Panu Poutvaara, Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, Mar. 2005, New Orleans
Panu Poutvaara, Annual Meeting of Finnish Economists, Febr. 2005, Mariehamn
Panu Poutvaara, Econometric Society Winter Meeting, Jan. 2005, Philadelphia,
Panu Poutvaara, Conference on Advanced Perspectives of Migration and Mobility, ZEI, Sept. 2004, Bonn
Panu Poutvaara, European Association of Labour Economists meeting, Sept. 2004, Lisbon
Panu Poutvaara, Public Economic Theory Meeting, Aug. 2004, Beijing
Panu Poutvaara, CESifo Public Economics Area Conference, May 2004, Munich
RTN Workshop “Financing Retirement in Europe”, Louvain-La-Neuve, May 2004, Belgium
Panu Poutvaara, Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Apr. 2004, Warsaw
Panu Poutvaara, European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, Apr. 2004, Berlin
Panu Poutvaara, Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, Mar. 2004, Baltimore
Panu Poutvaara, CESifo Conference: Migration and the Welfare State, Nov. 2003, Munich
Panu Poutvaara, International Institute of Public Finance Congress, Aug. 2003, Prague
Panu Poutvaara, European Economic Association annual meeting, Aug. 2003, Stockholm
Panu Poutvaara, Econometric Society European Meeting, Aug. 2003, Stockholm
Panu Poutvaara, Conference on Social Security, Labour Supply and Demographic Change, June 2003, Copenhagen
Panu Poutvaara, European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, Apr. 2003, Aarhus, Denmark
Panu Poutvaara, Verein für Socialpolitik Annual Conference, Sept. 2002, Innsbruck, Austria
Panu Poutvaara, International Institute of Public Finance Congress, Aug. 2002, Helsinki
Panu Poutvaara, European Economic Association annual meeting, Aug. 2002, Venice
Panu Poutvaara, Annual Conference of the European Society of Population Economics, June 2002, Bilbao, Spain
Panu Poutvaara, Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Apr. 2002, Paris
Panu Poutvaara, European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, Apr. 2002, Belgirate, Italy
Panu Poutvaara, Econometric Society Winter Meeting, Jan. 2002, Atlanta, Georgia
Panu Poutvaara, CEPR/EPRU Workshop ”Dynamic Aspects of Public Expenditure”, Sept. 2001, Copenhagen
Panu Poutvaara, International Institute of Public Finance Congress, Aug. 2001, Linz
Panu Poutvaara, Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, Apr. 2001, Durham
Panu Poutvaara, European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting, Apr. 2001, Paris
Panu Poutvaara, Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Mar. 2001, Copenhagen
Panu Poutvaara, ENTER Jamboree, Febr. 2001, Mannheim
Panu Poutvaara, International Institute of Public Finance's Congress, Aug. 2000, Seville
Panu Poutvaara, Canadian Public Economics Study Group Meeting, May-June 2000, Vancouver
Panu Poutvaara, Spring Meeting of Young Economists, Mar. 2000, Oxford
Panu Poutvaara, International Institute of Public Finance's Congress, Aug. 1999, Moscow
Panu Poutvaara, Fiscal Competition and Federalism in Europe, June 1999, Mannheim, Mannheim
Panu Poutvaara,International Institute of Public Finance's Congress, Aug. 1998, Córdoba, Argentina
Sloan, MIT (lunch seminar), March 2012, Cambridge, MA
Harvard (Public Economics and Fiscal Policy Seminar), March 2012, Cambridge, MA
Princeton (Department of Psychology), March 2012, Princeton, NJ
George Mason University, February 2012, Washington, DC
Cornell, February 2012, Ithaca, NY
Fordram University, February 2012, New York City
Columbia, February 2012, New York City
University of Cambridge, Dec. 2011, Cambridge
Bank of Finland, June 2011, Helsinki
Stockholm University, Apr. 2011, Stockholm
University of Marburg, June 2010, Marburg
University of Göttingen, May 2010, Göttingen
Bocconi University, Nov. 2009, Milan
Ratio Institute, Sept. 2009, Stockholm
Brunel University, June 2009, Uxbridge (London)
University of Jyväskylä, Ma< 2009, Jyväskylä
Public Choice Research Centre, Apr. 2009, Turku
VATT (Government Institute for Economic Research), Feb. 2009, Helsinki
IFN (Research Institute of Industrial Economics), Dec. 2008, Stockholm
Public Choice Research Centre, Sept. 2008, Turku
University of Göttingen, May 2008, Göttingen
Uppsala University, Apr. 2008, Uppsala
Umeå University, Apr. 2008, Umeå
University of Vienna and Institute for Advanced Studies jointly, Apr. 2008, Vienna
Queen’s University Belfast, Febr. 2008, Belfast
IFN (Research Institute of Industrial Economics), Nov. 2007. (2 talks), Stockholm
Max Planck Institute of Economics, Oct. 2007, Jena
University of Dresden, Oct. 2007, Dresden
University of Hannover, Oct. 2007, Hannover
KU Leuven, Oct. 2007, Leuven
ETH Zürich, Apr. 2007, Zürich
Finnish Centre for Pensions, März 2007, Helsinki
Bocconi University, Dec. 2006, Milan
University of Helsinki, Department of Psychology, Sept. 2006, Helsinki
University of Helsinki, Department of Political Science, Sept. 2006, Helsinki
VATT (Government Institute for Economic Research), May 2006, Helsinki
The Labour Institute for Economic Research, Mar. 2006, Helsinki
ETLA (Research Institute of the Finnish Economy), Mar. 2006, Helsinki
CORE, Mar. 2006, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
WZB Berlin, Jan. 2006, Berlin
Universityy of Dortmund, Apr. 2005, Dortmund
DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, Jan. 2005, Brussels
Tilburg University, Nov. 2004, Tilburg
WZB, Berlin, Sept. 2004, Berlin
University of Mainz, June 2004, Mainz
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, June 2004, Heidelberg
University of Göttingen, May 2004, Göttingen
EPRU, University of Copenhagen, Mar. 2004, Copenhagen
IZA, Bonn, Febr. 2004, Bonn
University of Vienna and Institute for Advanced Studies jointly, Jan. 2004, Vienna
Uppsala University, Nov. 2003, Uppsala
University of Helsinki, Febr. 2003, Helsinki
CORE, Oct. 2002, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Copenhagen Business School, Oct. 2002, Copenhagen
CEBR, Dec. 2001, London
CES, June 2001, Munich
CEBR, Nov. 2000, London
CEBR, May 2000, London
Université du Québec à Montréal, Apr. 2000, Montréal
Queen's University, Apr. 2000, Kingston
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