One would not expect rankings of world’s most valuable brands to interest but a specialised audience, but in Finland they get past the general media’s gatekeepers for one reason: Nokia. Every Finn used to take a lot of pride in seeing Nokia to feature prominently in the rankings. Today reporters browse through the rankings for […]

Recent macroeconomic literature has stressed the importance of resource allocation between firms for aggregate productivity. An important issue, therefore, is how to measure allocative efficiency. We compare popular indicators of allocative efficiency, paying special attention to firm turnover. We first show how entering and exiting firms contribute to aggregate productivity and to the Olley-Pakes (OP) […]

This paper utilizes queuing models to analyze health care processes. We extend previous queuing models to allow for i) heterogeneous resources, ii) resource allocation to various tasks, and iii) teams (complementary resources). We model a process of one clinical unit. We use the model to analyze how resource allocation affects both process performance and utilization […]

This report is an overview to the presentations and discussions in the seminar Survival or performance? Healthcare viewed through organization, information management, and personnel held on 3.9.2012. The seminar provided an interdisciplinary forum for the question how the health care system may overcome its present challenges

Industry Studies Conference Paper. 30th May, 2013.  Kansas City,  USA