Vesa Kanniainen

Vesa Lennart Kanniainen (born March 13, 1948 in Rovaniemi) is a professor of economics at the University of Helsinki.

Biography

Vesa Kanniainen studied at the London School of Economics in 1972–73, working within macroeconomic theory and monetary economics, topics that he was also teaching as Visiting Assistant Professor at Brown University and Washington State University in 1977–79. Most of his academic life, he has been working at the University of Helsinki. In research, he subsequently moved to dynamic investment models, including tax effects and he started to teach corporate finance. Later, he has given some courses at Uppsala University, University of Munich and at Hamburg University. He is a research fellow at CESifo in Munich.

Academic work

His most highly cited paper:

Kanniainen, V., & Keuschnigg, C. (2003). The optimal portfolio of start-up firms in venture capital finance. Journal of Corporate Finance, 9(5), 521-534.

has been cited 325 times according to Google Scholar.[1]

His second most cited paper:

Kanniainen, V., & Keuschnigg, C. (2004). Start-up investment with scarce venture capital support. Journal of Banking & Finance, 28(8), 1935-1959.

has been cited 255 times.[1]

Other works

He also writes and publishes short stories and poems:

  • Vaaroja Vapautta Viettelyksiä, VK World 2004, Yliopistopaino ISBN 952-99428-0-X, Helsinki 2004.
  • Jos voisin mä elämäni lauluksi laulaa. Nuoren miehen runoja ajalta, jolloin Suomi syntyi, poems by Juho Oskari Rautio (1885–1969), editing and preface Vesa Kanniainen, Yliopistopaino ISBN 952-91-3257-3, Helsinki 2001.
gollark: Not very accurately.
gollark: How do you know?
gollark: The server is better, but I can't easily make it provide its full heat output and it's downstairs.
gollark: It's very cold here and my laptop's too efficient to keep me warm nowadays.
gollark: I'm using cryoapioformic resonance cooling to move the coldness from *my* house to yours.

References
  1. Google Scholar author page



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