Aapo Stenhammar

Aapo Stenhammar serves as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Bonn, where he is affiliated with the Institute for Applied Microeconomics. He concurrently holds a research fellowship at the Labour Institute for Economic Research (LABORE) in Helsinki, Finland, and has been an Associated Member of a research cluster since 2024.

His academic background includes:

• PhD in Economics from Aalto University and Helsinki Graduate School of Economics (Helsinki GSE), completed in 2024
• Research visits at UC Berkeley and the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) at Stockholm University during doctoral studies

Stenhammar's research examines the intersection of labor markets, public policy, and political dynamics, with methodological innovation in applying machine learning to digitize historical documents and analyze textual/visual data for econometric studies. His core expertise spans Labor Economics, Economic History, Political Economy, Migration, and Industrial Policy, evidenced by investigations into agricultural structural change in 1970s Finland, EU technology subsidy impacts on Finnish SMEs, and migration outcomes during EU enlargement. His work demonstrates how economic transformations can yield intergenerational benefits while triggering political backlash.

He teaches courses on text data analysis and maintains active research collaborations through the Institute for Applied Microeconomics and LABORE, focusing on policy-relevant economic questions using novel computational approaches.