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
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 Heterogeneous Marketing Strategies
Research in Economics, 2025
With Klaus Kultti
Equilibrium Pricing under Concave Advertising Costs
The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2023
With Klaus Kultti
Equilibrium Price and Advertisement Distributions
Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2021
With Klaus Kultti
Economics Bulletin, 2026
On Regularity and Normalization in Sequential Screening
Supplementary Note, 2024
With Ian Ball
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, 2015