Lauri Ojala

PhD Economics student

United States

About

Experience

  • Research Assistant at VATT Institute for Economic Research
    May 2018 - Aug 2018 · 4 mos

    Contributed to an on-going research project "Effects of tax enforcement on firms: Evidence from randomized audits" (with Kaisa Kotakorpi, Tuomas Matikka and Jarkko Harju) as well as to the report "Modeling labor supply as part of economic policy evaluations" commissioned by the Prime Minister's Office.

  • Kilpailu- ja kuluttajavirasto (Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority) (9 mos)
    • Research Officer
      Dec 2017 - May 2018 · 6 mos

      My primary duties included working on cases in FCCA’s merger control division and particularly contributing to the quantitative (incl. econometric) analysis conducted during the investigations. I handled the planning of the data requests needed for the authority’s analysis, the implementation of the data analysis and participated in negotiations with the parties. Furthermore, I also played a substantive role in quantitative effects analysis carried out in antitrust proceedings.

    • Trainee
      Sep 2017 - Dec 2017 · 4 mos

      I worked on merger inquiry cases as part of the Chief Economist's team. My primary duties consisted of conducting empirical analysis using Stata and Excel, reviewing literature and contributing to discussions about the theoretical and empirical approach, drafting reports summarising the analysis of the FCCA and participating in client meetings and conference calls.

  • Intern at VATT Institute for Economic Research
    Jun 2017 - Sep 2017 · 4 mos

    Work consisted of data cleaning, management and descriptive analysis on several large-scale micro-level datasets on firms.

  • Intern at VATT Institute for Economic Research
    Jun 2016 - Sep 2016 · 4 mos

  • Salesperson at Makusa Oy
    Mar 2014 - Aug 2014 · 6 mos