Milla Tarpola
PhD Candidate at PSE
Area of Expertise
- Creative Destruction
- Firm Dynamics
- M&A
Biography
Milla is a PhD student in economics at the Paris School of Economics and an affiliate of the Farhi Innovation Lab, supervised by Prof. Philippe Aghion and Prof. Antonin Bergeaud.
Her research focuses on innovation, growth, and empirical industrial organization, with a particular interest in the role of mergers and acquisitions in technological change. More broadly, she studies why firms with promising innovations are often acquired rather than grow independently, and how these choices affect innovation and long-run growth.
In 2026–27, she will be a visiting student at Yale University and Stanford University.
Education
- Paris School of Economics
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