I am a proud father of twins and a microeconomic theorist. My research interests are in information economics and game theory. I work on questions related to auctions and mechanism design.
Email:
pekkariselle@gmail.com & teemu.pekkarinen@uwasa.fi
Address:
Teemu Pekkarinen
University of Vaasa
Department of Economics
Wolffintie 32, 65200 Vaasa, Finland
Office: A331
Phone: +358 29 449 8615
Photo by Karoliina Vuorenmäki
'Optimal Auction Design with Contingent Payments and Costly Verification',
Theoretical Economics (cond. accepted), 2026.
With Ian Ball
SSRN: 5194687, 2026.
With Jana Gieselmann & Mikael Mäkimattila
'Avoidance, Auditing, and Optimal Contracts',
SSRN: 3729347, 2026.
With Petteri Palonen
'On Bilateral Trade with Interdependent Values',
SSRN: 3950363, 2023.
'When Aiyagari meets Piketty: Growth, Inequality and Factor Income Shares',
SSRN: 3782991, 2022.
With Toni Juuti, Kari Heimonen, & Juha-Pekka Junttila
'Mechanism Design with Auditing and Avoidance: Tax Evasion Story',
SSRN: 4230382, 2024.
With Petteri Palonen
'Mechanism Design with Auditing and Avoidance: Emission Reporting Story',
SSRN: 4845646, 2024.
With Petteri Palonen
'Identification of Collusion from Entry Decisions',
Work in Progress, 2026.
With Riku Buri, Adriano De Leverano, Carlo Perroni, Vitezslav Titl, & Janne Tukiainen
'On Price and Quantity Regulation',
Work in Progress, 2026.
With Mikael Mäkimattila
'Price-Inreasing Competition by Heretogenous Marketing Strategies',
Research in Economics, 2025.
With Klaus Kultti
'Equilibrium Price and Advertisement Distributions',
Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2021.
With Klaus Kultti
'Data Processing Growth Model',
Economics Bulletin, 2026.
'On Regularity and Normalization in Sequential Screening',
Supplementary Note, 2024.
With Ian Ball
'Equilibrium Pricing under Concave Advertising Costs',
The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2023.
With Klaus Kultti
'Research on Pricing under Asymmetric Information',
The Finnish Economic Journal, 2023. (In Finnish)
'Studies in Pricing Under Asymmentric Information',
Doctoral Dissertation, Helsinki GSE, 2022.
'The Finnish gambling system in transition – Options for the future',
Publications of the Finnish Government, 2021.
With Erkki Liikanen, Liisa Hyssälä, Kalevi Kivistö, Osmo Soininvaara, & Ulla-Maj Wideroos (In Finnish)
'Big Data and Machine Learning in Macroeconomics',
The Finnish Economic Journal, 2018. (In Finnish)
'The Structural Changes in Finnish Industrial Sector',
Bank of Finland Bulletin, 2017. (In Finnish)
’The lower bounds on nominal interest rates’,
Master's Thesis, University of Helsinki, 2017.
Macroeconomics I: Economic Growth & Macroeconomic Equilibrium,
University of Vaasa
Bachelor's level, Spring 2026
Behavioral Economics: Introduction,
University of Vaasa
Bachelor's level, Fall 2025
Microeconomics 1: Competition & Welfare,
University of Bonn
Master's level, Fall 2024
Microeconomics 4: Information Economics,
Helsinki GSE
PhD level, Spring 2019 & 2021
Microeconomics 3: Game Theory,
Helsinki GSE
PhD level, Spring 2019
Econometrics 1: Econometric Methods I,
Helsinki GSE
PhD level, Fall 2018
Econometrics 2: Econometric Methods II,
Helsinki GSE
PhD level, Fall 2018
Macroeconomics 1: Adv. Optimization Methods for Macroeconomics Models,
Helsinki GSE
PhD level, Fall 2019
Macroeconomics 2: Stochastic Recursive Macroeconomics Models,
Helsinki GSE
PhD level, Fall 2019
Advanced Macroeconomics I, Econometrics I, Microeconomics I,
Master's and PhD level, Fall 2020
Econometrics I & II, Microeconomics I & II,
Master's level, Fall 2018
Statistics & Mathematical Economics,
Preparation Course, Helsinki (04/2015)