📢 We are hiring a postdoc in urban and transportation economics at Aalto! I can personally vouch for the value of this opportunity: access to great data infrastructure and mentorship, Nordic lifestyle 🌲🫐

📅 Deadline: February 15, 2026

Apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

As part of the Helsinki GSE initiative, the Department of Economics at Aalto University School of Business invites applications for Assistant Professor position in Economics (Tenure Track). Applications in all fields of economics are invited.

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Excited to see the new Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics (Volume 6), edited jointly with Dave Donaldson come out: www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/han.... Fantastic set of chapters on recent advances and pointing the way to exciting further research @treballen.bsky.social @siepr.bsky.social

Thanks for a great workshop! See you next summer in Denmark!

Happening today! Look forward to meeting our Nordic colleagues 🇳🇴🇩🇰🇸🇪🇫🇮

Nordic Urban Economics meeting in Helsinki! Submission deadline approaching soon!

Are you an urban economist located in the Nordics or working with Nordic data?

You're in luck!

We are organizing the Second Nordic Meeting in Urban Economics in Helsinki, Sept 8-9, 2025.

You can find the call for papers here:

sites.google.com/view/second-...

@prottoyakbar.bsky.social finds that the speed of public transit relative to driving time is linked to whether or not expanding access exacerbates urban segregation in US cities. Expansion of slow networks reduces income segregation across neighbourhoods.
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*Call for papers* for the Second Nordic Meeting in Urban Economics, to be hosted in Helsinki, Finland, Sept 8-9! sites.google.com/view/second-...