30.06.2020 Publications Working Papers 80 Nowcasting Industrial Production Using Uncoventional Data Sources Fornaro Paolo In this work, we rely on unconventional data sources to nowcast the year-on-year growth rate of Finnish industrial production,
30.03.2020 Other publications Publications Structural competitiveness Ylhäinen IlkkaAli-Yrkkö JyrkiFornaro PaoloPajarinen Mika This report introduces a new framework and index for structural competitiveness that can be used to analyze the preconditions
13.12.2019 Other publications Publications The Impacts of Transport System Changes on Labor Market and Their Evaluation Metsäranta HeikkiRiukula KristaKauhanen AnttiFornaro Paolo In this project, we study how changes in transport can affect labour markets, how these effects can be analysed
01.02.2019 Publications Working Papers 63 Immigrant Innovators and Firm Performance Fornaro PaoloMaliranta MikaRouvinen Petri We study immigrants’ effects on firm-level innovativeness. Managers, innovators, and other employees are considered as separate groups both in
13.09.2018 Publications Reports 83 Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Finland Fornaro Paolo Immigrant entrepreneurship is the subject of a prolific economic literature, as well as a source of wide public debate.
25.06.2018 Briefs Publications 68 Regional Economic Disparities in Finland Fornaro Paolo In this note, I study the Finnish regional dispersion of economic indicators such as the GDP per capita, labour
09.03.2018 Publications Reports 82 Economic Dynamics and Changes in Values and Attitudes among Finnish Regions: A Descriptive Analysis Fornaro Paolo Finland is characterized by a substantial heterogeneity across its regions. Key economic indicators, such as the GDP per capita
07.06.2017 Briefs Publications 59 Know the Present to Understand the Future: Nowcasting and Forecasting the Finnish Economy Fornaro Paolo This report concerns the relationship between forecasting and nowcasting (i.e. the production of real-time estimates of key economic indicators),
10.01.2017 Publications Working Papers 47 Small and Medium Firms, Aggregate Productivity and the Role of Dependencies Fornaro PaoloLuomaranta Henri We analyze the productivity contribution of firms in the Finnish business sector, using data from 2002 until 2014, and
10.01.2017 Publications Working Papers 46 Nowcasting Finnish Turnover Indexes Using Firm-Level Data Fornaro PaoloLuomaranta HenriSaarinen Lauri We adopt a series of shrinkage and factor analytic methodologies to compute nowcasts of the main Finnish turnover indexes,
13.10.2016 Publications Working Papers 44 Job Creation and the Role of Dependencies Fornaro PaoloLuomaranta Henri We contribute to the extensive literature on the relationship between firm size and job creation, by examining the effects
