Mika Vaihekoski
Professor of Finance
finance; asset pricing; portfolio management; corporate finance; financial history; econometrics
Mika Vaihekoski is Professor of Finance at the University of Turku (UTU), Turku School of Economics, Department of Accounting and Finance.
Vaihekoski got his M.Sc. in economics and business administration from Turku School of Economics, and a D.Sc in finance from Hanken School of Economics. During his doctoral studies he was also a student at the Graduate School of Finance and Financial Accounting. With the help of the ASLA-Fulbright scholarship Vaihekoski also visited Kellogg Graduate School of Management at the Northwestern University in the USA.
Prior to joining Turku School of Economics / University of Turku in 2008, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Helsinki School of Economics and as the Director of the Finance Institute at LTT Research Ltd from 2000 to 2004. In 2004, he was appointed as a Professor of Finance at the Lappeenranta University of Technology.
Vaihekoski has published several articles in finance journals. He is currently also an assiciate editor the European Journal of Finance and International Journal of Portfolio Analysis and Management. His research interests included financial markets, asset pricing, corporate finance, portfolio management, financial econometrics, and financial history.
- LRS34 Financial Econometrics
- LRS31 Asset Pricing and Portfolio Theory
- LRS28 Advanced Corporate Finance
- LRS25 Financial Modeling and Simulation
- LR05 Intermediate Finance
- Master's Thesis Seminar
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- Expected return and variance: Lambda is alive, positive and significant (konferenssiesitys) (2015) Jan Antell, Mika Vaihekoski
- Short-Term Expectations in Listed Firms: The Effects Of Different Owner Types (2015)
- Journal of International Financial Management and Accounting
- Yritysrahoituksen perusteet (2015) Minna Martikainen, Mika Vaihekoski
- A note on the calculation of the risk free rate for tests of asset pricing models and event studies (2014) Contributions to Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, and Finance: Essays in Honour of Professor Seppo Pynnönen. Mika Vaihekoski
- Descriptive analysis of the Finnish stock market: Part II (2014) TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE MULTINATIONAL FINANCE SOCIETY Peter Nyberg, Mika Vaihekoski
- Descriptive analysis of the Finnish stock market: Part II (2014)
- Bank of Finland Discussion Papers
- Dividend policy in Nordic listed firms (2014)
- Global Finance Journal
- Equity premium in Finland and long-term performance of the Finnish equity and money markets (2014)
- Cliometrica
- Determinants of capital budgeting methods and hurdle rates in Nordic firms (2013)
- Accounting and Finance
- Dividend policy and capital structure decisions in Nordic listed firms (2013) 2013 Accepted Conference Papers & Participants List Tor Brunzell, Eva Liljeblom, Mika Vaihekoski
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