Tuuli Vanhapelto

Tuuli Vanhapelto serves as a Lecturer at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, teaching Real Estate Economics and Finance (postgraduate) and Introductory Statistics for Economists (undergraduate) during the 2024-2025 academic year.

Education:

• PhD in Economics from Toulouse School of Economics (2023)

Research Focus: Dr. Vanhapelto specializes in housing market dynamics using spatial equilibrium frameworks. Her work integrates urban economics, economic geography, and real estate policy analysis with emphasis on Finnish market data. She examines price-rent divergence, rent subsidy effectiveness, and housing search liquidity through quantitative modeling and quasi-experimental methods.

Publication Trends: Her recent research reveals critical insights into regional housing wealth inequality, policy incidence mechanisms in constrained markets, and structural determinants of market liquidity. The work consistently bridges theoretical spatial models with empirical housing policy analysis, highlighting welfare implications of urban economic divergence.

Awards:

• Honorable mention for Best Student Paper Award at Urban Economics Association 2023 European Meeting

Professional Activities: Current teaching portfolio demonstrates expertise in both advanced real estate economics and foundational statistical methods. No doctoral students or grant funding details are publicly documented. Research collaborations include prominent Finnish economists and Toulouse-based scholars.