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During the past two years, the world has experienced its most severe slump since the Great Depression in the 1930s. The Nordic countries have been hit harder than most other countries. Due to its sharpness and depth, the current global financial and economic crisis has initiated a wide debate on the supposed self-correcting properties of

The study analyses the financial framework of the European Union in 2014-2020 and the prospects of Finland in this framework. The study is structured according to budget headlines the most central of which are the natural resources (agriculture and rural development), cohesion (regional and structural policies), and competitiveness. Scenarios concerning the future are built upon

Industrial and Corporate Change (2009), Vol 18:6, pp. 1161-1191 Publication year: 2009 Pages: 31 Language: English Other articles 497

General purpose technologies (GPT) have a significant impact on economic activity through radical technological change and wide technological diffusion. This paper aims to address the generality of technologies associated with the GPT concept. Information and communications technologies (ICT), biotechnology and nanotechnology are viewed as existing or potential general purpose technologies, but there is a lack

Lääkemarkkinoita on vapautettu viime vuosina muissa Pohjoismaissa. Norjassa, Tanskassa ja Ruotsissa itsehoitolääkkeiden myynti on sallittu apteekkien lisäksi päivittäistavarakaupalle. Norjassa ja Ruotsissa on vapautettu lääkemarkkinoita laajemminkin. Myös Suomessa on käyty keskustelua itsehoitolääkkeiden myynnin sallimisesta muun muassa päivittäistavarakaupalle. Tämä lisäisi kilpailua itsehoitolääkkeiden markkinoilla, alentaisi niiden hintoja, vähentäisi kuluttajien lääkemenoja ja parantaisi lääkkeiden saatavuutta. Tässä tutkimuksessa selvitetään itsehoitolääkkeiden

This paper explores the sources underlying the marked increase in the dispersion of private-sector wages in Finland since the mid-90s by use of a recently proposed method to decompose changes along the whole wage distribution over a period of time into several factors contributing to those changes. The results suggest that changes in the way