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  • When the Department was founded, the teaching staff consisted only of a professor and an assistant. 
  • At present there are 9 teaching positions: two professors, three lecturers, senior assistant, assistant and two full-time teachers. There are also a number of research staff on fixed-term contracts.
  • Also a large number of Statistics part-time teachers have worked in the Department. These include Tomi Seppälä, Anna-Maija Koivisto,Ismo Lapinleimu, Henri Toukomaa, Merja Jauhiainen, Markopekka Niinimäki, Joni Lehtinen, Matti Ylén, Jari Parviainen, Pirjo Palmroos, Inka Martti, Lasse Koskinen, Hannu Oja, Jani-Pekka Virtanen, Minna Åhman and Erkki Mäkelä.
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    Antti Kanto

    Ph.D., Professor in Business Mathematics and Statistics at Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration, Docent

    E-mail: unanka@uta.fi

    Antti Kanto obtained his M.Sc. (1976) and Ph.D. (1983) in Statistics at the University of Tampere. From 1977 to 1985 he has been acting in several positions at the University of Tampere and at the University of Vaasa. From 1986 to 1987 he acted as Senior Researcher in the Academy of Finland, 1987–1992 he was an acting Associate Professor in Statistics at the University of Vaasa, 1992–1993 as an Acting Professor in Statistics at the University of Tampere. Since 1993 he has been an Associate Professor (title changed to Professor in 1998) in Business Mathematics and Statistics at Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration. He also holds a Docentship in Statistics at the University of Tampere (1989).
     

    Research interests:

    • statistical methods in finance
    • horserace and football betting models.

    Main publications

    • Kanto, Antti J. (1984). A Characterization of the Inverse Autocorrelation Function. Communications in Statistics, Theory and Methods, 13, 2503-2510, 8 p
    • Kanto, Antti J. (1987). A Formula for the Inverse Autocorrelation Function of an Autoregressive Process. Journal of Time Series Analysis, Vol. 8, No 3., 311-312, 2 p.
    • Kanto, Antti J. (1988). Covariances Between Estimated Autocorrelations of an ARMA Process. Economic Letters 26, 253-258, 6 p.
    • Kanto, Antti J. and Martikainen, Seppo (1990). A Confirmatory Test of the Validity of an a Priori Classification Pattern of Financial Ratios. European Journal of Operations Research, 19 p.
    •  Kanto, Antti J., Rosenqvist, Gunnar and Suvas, Arto (1992). On Utility Function Estimation of Racetrack Bettors. Journal of Economic Psychology 13, 491-498.

    Recent publications

    • Kanto, Antti and Rosenqvist, Gunnar (1994). On the Efficiency of the Market for Double (Quinella) Bets at a Finnish Racetrack, in Efficiency of Racetrack Betting Markets, ed. Hausch, Donald B., Lo, Victor, S.Y., Ziemba, William, T. Academic Press Inc., 485-498.
    • Kanto, Antti and Schadewitz, Hannu (1994). Consequences of Capital Structure and Growth on Disclosure Policies–Evidence from Finnish Firms. Helsinki School of Economics Working Paper W-80.
    • Kanto, Antti and Schadewitz, Hannu (1994). Non-linearity between Returns and Earnings –Evidence with Methodological Implications. Helsinki School of Economics Working Paper W-109.
    • Kanto, Antti, Kasanen, Eero and Puttonen, Vesa (1995). Predicting Index Returns with Morphological Filters. Helsinki School of Economics Working Paper W-119
    • Kanto, A.J., Schadewitz, H.J. (1995). Information Content of Disclosure and Earnings –Evidence from Finnish Interim Reports. Southwest Business Symposium Proceedings.(12th Annual Meeting, pp. 464-471). Edmond, Oklahoma, USA. (Outstanding paper award).
    • Kanto, A.J., Schadewitz, H.J. (1996). A Multidimensional Model for the Disclosure Policy of a Firm. Helsinki School of Economics Working Paper W-157. (Accepted for publication in Scandinavian Journal of Management).
    • Kanto, A.J., Schadewitz, H.J. (1996). Market Use of Disclosure Components in Interim Reports. Helsinki School of Economics Working Paper W-158.
    • Kanto, Antti, Kasanen, Eero and Puttonen, Vesa (1997). Predicting Index Returns with Morphological Filters. Computational Economics, Vol 10, No. 1, 1-14.
    • Kanto, A.J., Schadewitz, H.J. (1997). Effects of Earnings and Disclosure on Stock Market Behaviour around Interim Report Announcement. International Journal of Management, Vol 14, No 3. Part 1 422-432.

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