Defended doctoral theses
| Name | Year | Title | Supervisors |
| Aaro Hazak | 2008 | Capital Structure and Dividend Decisions Under Distributed Profit Taxation | Enn Listra |
| Laivi Laidroo | 2008 | Public Announcements’ Relevance, Quality and Determinants on Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius Stock Exchanges | Enn Listra |
| Martti Randveer | 2009 | Monetary Policy Transmission Channels, Flexibility of the Economy and Future Prospects of the Estonian Monetary System | Kaie Kerem |
| Kaire Põder | 2010 | Structural Solutions to Social Traps: Formal and Informal Institutions | Kaie Kerem, Alari Purju |
| Tõnn Talpsepp | 2010 | Investor Behavior and Volatility Asymmetry | Karsten Staehr |
| Igor Novikov | 2011 | Credit risk determinants in the banking sectors of the Baltic States | Grigori Fainštein |
| Mari Avarmaa | 2012 | Implications of Capital Structure and Credit Constraints for Company Performance: A Comparative Study of Local and Multinational Companies in the Baltics | Aaro Hazak, Kadri Männasoo |
| Fabio Filipozzi | 2012 | The efficiency of interest rate and foreign exchange markets in the euro area and Central and Eastern Europe | Karsten Staehr |
| Aleksei Netšunajev | 2012 | Developments and Determinants of Intra-Industry Trade in the Baltic States | Grigori Fainštein |
| Svetlana Raudonen | 2014 | Impact of Corporate Taxation on Foreign Investments: Evidence from European Union | Enn Listra, Andreas Freytag |
| Merike Kukk | 2016 | Essays on Household Consumption and Income Underreporting | Karsten Staehr |
| Peeter Maripuu | 2017 | Cyclicality, Corporate Investments and Financial Soundness: Evidence from Central and Eastern European Countries | Kadri Männasoo, Aaro Hazak |
| Simona Ferraro | 2018 | Essays on Education and Labour Economics | Karin Jõeveer, Karsten Staehr, Kaire Põder |
| Kristjan Liivamägi | 2018 | Education and Investor Behaviour | Tõnn Talpsepp, Mei Wang |
| Tarvo Vaarmets | 2019 | Investor Decisions and the Path to the Stock Market | Tõnn Talpsepp |
| Signe Rosenberg | 2020 | Essays on Housing, Monetary Policy and Consumption | Karsten Staehr, Merike Kukk, Lenno Uusküla |
| Raul Ruubel | 2020 | Working Schedules and Efficient Time-Use in R&D Work | Aaro Hazak, Kadri Männasoo |
| Natalia Levenko | 2020 | Uncertainty and Measurement in Macroeconomics | Karsten Staehr |
| Svetlana Ridala | 2021 | Essays on Language Skills and Labour Market Outcomes | Kadri Männasoo, Ott-Siim Toomet, Ants Aasma |
| Kersti Harkmann | 2021 | Essays on Volatility and Contagion in Financial Markets | Karsten Staehr |
| Nicolas Andreas Reigl | 2022 | Essays on Applied Macroeconomics, Banking and Financial Stability | Karsten Staehr, Lenno Uusküla |
| Mari-Liis Kukk | 2022 | Monetary Return Crowdfunding: Social Roots but Real Losses | Laivi Laidroo, Mari Avarmaa |
| Triinu Tapver | 2022 | Essays on Bank Governance and Mutual Fund Performance | Laivi Laidroo, Karin Jõeveer |
| Pavlo Illiashenko | 2023 | Essays in Behavioral Finance: National Culture and Economic Populism | Laivi Laidroo, Tõnn Talpsepp |
| Helery Tasane | 2023 | Institutions and Innovativeness of SMEs | Aaro Hazak, Kadri Männasoo |
| Artjom Saia | 2024 | Economic Perspectives of Twin-transition: Low-carbon Production and Inclusive Digitalization | Kadri Männasoo, Aaro Hazak |
