Seppo Honkapohja
Seppo Honkapohja (born March 7, 1951 in Helsinki ) is a Finnish economist and board member of the Finnish central bank Suomen Pankki and former professor of international macroeconomics at Cambridge University .
Life
After attending the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales , Seppo Honkapohja attended the University of Helsinki and graduated with an M.Soc.Sc. , the Licentiate of Soc.Sc. and a D.Soc.Sc. from.
From 1975 to 1987, Dr. Honkapohja Scientific Director of the Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation . Until 1991 he was Professor of Economics at the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration . In 1992 he moved to the University of Helsinki, where he was Professor of Economics. In addition, from 2000 to 2004 he was Academy Professor at the Academy of Finland . In 2004 he followed a call to Cambridge University as Professor of International Macroeconomics.
Since January 1, 2008, Seppo Honkapohja, D.Soc.Sc., has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Finnish Central Bank. He is responsible for research, information technology and proprietary trading for the Finnish Central Bank.
He was a member of the European Economic Advisory Group from 2001 until his appointment as Central Bank Director . From 2004 to 2006 he was its chairman.
Honors
- Member of the Academia Europaea (since 1990)
- Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences (since 1991) and chairman of the social science group (1997–2002)
- Medal of Honor (1st Class Knight) Finnish Order of the White Rose (1992)
- Fellow of the Econometric Society (since 1999)
- Fellow of the European Economic Association (since 2004)
- Doctor of Science hc in Economics and Business Administration, Turku School of Economics (2010)
Literature / works
- Seppo Honkapohja: Economic prosperity recaptured: the Finnish path from crisis to rapid growth . MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2009, ISBN 0-262-01269-3 .
- George Ewart Evans, Seppo Honkapohja: Learning and expectations in macroeconomics . Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 2001, ISBN 0-691-04921-1 .
- Seppo Honkapohja: The crisis of the Finnish econom . Dept. of Economics, Helsinki 1993, ISBN 951-45-6419-7 .
- Seppo Honkapohja: Information and incentives in organizations . Blackwell, Oxford 1989, ISBN 0-631-16424-3 .
- Kenneth Joseph Arrow, Seppo Honkapohja, Hilma Gabriella Jahnsson: Frontiers of economics . B. Blackwell, Oxford, UK 1985, ISBN 0-631-13408-5 .
- Finn R. Førsund, Seppo Honkapohja: Limits and problems of taxation . St. Martin's Press, New York 1985, ISBN 0-312-48684-7 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Seppo Honkapohja in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry in the international Who's Who
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bank of Finland's organization. Retrieved June 25, 2010 .
- ↑ a b Bank of Finland: Seppo Honkapohja, Member of the Board. Retrieved June 25, 2010 .
- ^ Academy of Finland: Annual Report. (PDF; 1.3 MB) (No longer available online.) P. 36 , archived from the original on September 28, 2011 ; accessed on June 25, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Academia Europaea: Seppo Honkapohja. Retrieved June 25, 2010 .
- ↑ a b University of Helsinki: Seppo Honkapohja. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 11, 2011 ; accessed on June 25, 2010 (English, CV link ). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Fellows of the Econometric Society. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 10, 2008 ; accessed on June 25, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Fellows of the European Economics Association. Retrieved June 25, 2010 .
- ^ The honorary doctors of the Turku School of Economics 2010. Retrieved June 25, 2010 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Honkapohja, Seppo |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Honkapohja, Seppo Mikko Sakari |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish economist and board member of the Finnish Central Bank (since 2008) |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1951 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Helsinki |