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Seppo Honkapohja

Seppo Honkapohja

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Economics and Finance
Finland
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
44
Citations
9438
World Ranking
1846
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Finland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Finland Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Finland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Finland Leader Award
  • 1999 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 1990 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Overview

Seppo Honkapohja is affiliated with Aalto University in Finland and has contributed to the field of Economics, Econometrics and Finance through multiple research publications. Their work predominantly engages with topics such as monetary policy and economic impact, economic theories and models, economic theory and policy, and market dynamics and volatility.

The scientist has published several papers, among which are:

  • EXPECTATIONS, STAGNATION, AND FISCAL POLICY: A NONLINEAR ANALYSIS (2022, International Economic Review)
  • On Robustness of Average Inflation Targeting (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • On Robustness of Average Inflation Targeting (2022, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • Average Inflation Targeting in Calvo Model with Imperfect Knowledge and Learning (2024, SSRN Electronic Journal)

Seppo Honkapohja's frequent co-authors include Nigel McClung, George W. Evans, and Kaushik Mitra.

Their research has appeared mainly in the SSRN Electronic Journal and International Economic Review. These venues have featured works that address complex economic models and policy analysis.

In terms of fields of study, their contributions cover general economics, econometrics and finance with a division into subfields such as:

  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Economics and Econometrics

The scientist's main research topics focus on:

  • Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
  • Economic theories and models
  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • Market Dynamics and Volatility

Recognition in professional societies includes being elected as a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1999, membership in Academia Europaea since 1990, and election as a Fellow of the European Economic Association.

Best Publications

  • Learning and expectations in macroeconomics

    George W. Evans;Seppo Honkapohja

  • The Economic Crisis of the 1990s in Finland

    Seppo Honkapohja;Erkki Koskela

  • Expectations and the stability problem for optimal monetary policies

    George W. Evans;Seppo Honkapohja

  • Expectations and the Stability Problem for Optimal Monetary Policies

    Unknown

  • The Nordic Model. Embracing globalization and sharing risks

    Torben M. Andersen;Bengt Holmström;Seppo Honkapohja;Sixten Korkman

  • Monetary policy, expectations and commitment

    George W. Evans;Seppo Honkapohja

  • Adaptive Learning and Monetary Policy Design

    George W. Evans;Seppo Honkapohja

  • Learning and Macroeconomics

    George W. Evans;George W. Evans;Seppo Honkapohja;Seppo Honkapohja;Seppo Honkapohja

  • Liquidity traps, learning and stagnation ☆

    George W. Evans;Eran A. Guse;Seppo Honkapohja

  • Learning stability in economies with heterogeneous agents

    Seppo Honkapohja;Seppo Honkapohja;Kaushik Mitra;Kaushik Mitra

  • The 1990’s financial crises in Nordic countries

    Seppo Honkapohja

  • AN INTERVIEW WITH THOMAS J. SARGENT

    George W. Evans;Seppo Honkapohja

  • Local convergence of recursive learning to steady states and cycles in stochastic nonlinear models

    George W. Evans;Seppo Honkapohja

  • Frontiers of Economics

    Kenneth Joseph Arrow;Seppo Honkapohja;Hilma Gabriella Jahnsson;Yrjö Jahnssonin säätiö

  • Are non-fundamental equilibria learnable in models of monetary policy?

    Seppo Honkapohja;Kaushik Mitra

  • Expectations, Learning and Monetary Policy: An Overview of Recent Research

    George W. Evans;Seppo Honkapohja

  • Economic Dynamics with Learning: New Stability Results

    George W. Evans;Seppo Honkapohja

  • Chapter 7 Learning dynamics

    George W. Evans;Seppo Honkapohja

  • Notes on Agents’ Behavioral Rules Under Adaptive Learning and Studies of Monetary Policy

    Seppo Honkapohja;Kaushik Mitra;George W. Evans

  • On the Local Stability of Sunspot Equilibria under Adaptive Learning Rules

    George W. Evans;Seppo Honkapohja

  • 2. Learning as a Rational Foundation for Macroeconomics and Finance

    George W. Evans;George W. Evans;Seppo Honkapohja;Seppo Honkapohja;Seppo Honkapohja

  • Learning Stability in Economies with Heterogenous Agents

    Seppo Honkapohja;Kaushik Mitra

Frequent Co-Authors

George W. Evans
George W. Evans University of St Andrews
Giancarlo Corsetti
Giancarlo Corsetti European University Institute
Hans-Werner Sinn
Hans-Werner Sinn Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Xavier Vives
Xavier Vives University of Navarra
Gilles Saint-Paul
Gilles Saint-Paul Paris School of Economics
Lars Calmfors
Lars Calmfors Research Institute of Industrial Economics
Erkki Koskela
Erkki Koskela University of Helsinki
Takatoshi Ito
Takatoshi Ito Columbia University
Michael P. Devereux
Michael P. Devereux University of Oxford

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