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28.04.2025
Reports
163
Public Sector Wage-Setting: Can an Export-Led Labour Market Model Be Created in Finland?
Kauhanen Antti
The Finnish labour market model has been undergoing a transformation since 2007, and the role of the public
sector
22.04.2025
Briefs
158
Ex-Nokians Eagerly Became Entrepreneurs and Business Angels: Nokia Experience Fueled Rapid Growth of Startups’ Turnovers
Rouvinen Petri
Breznitz Dan
Pajarinen Mika
This brief examines entrepreneurship and business angel activity in Finland following the challenges Nokia’s mobile telephony business faced
in
17.04.2025
Briefs
157
Public Finance Perspective from Recent Studies on Finnish Pharmaceutical Markets
Jokelainen Antto
Markkanen Jaakko
Siikanen Markku
Toivanen Otto
Petteri Orpo’s government program plans to reform pharmaceutical and pharmacy regulation in Finland. In this memo, we review
some
15.04.2025
Reports
162
A Clean Tariff? Effects and Challenges of EU CBAM
Kaitila Ville
Kuusi Tero
Pajarinen Mika
Wang Maria
This study examines the impacts of the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) on corporate costs, adaptation
strategies,
08.04.2025
Reports
161
Finnish Business Finance in European Comparison: Money is Not the Key Bottleneck to Economic Growth
Rouvinen Petri
Ylhäinen Ilkka
Finnish businesses face fewer financial challenges than their European peers. To the extent financial challenges do exist, they
disproportionately
02.04.2025
Briefs
156
The Long-term Effects of Finland’s Recession of the 1990s on Mortality
Maczulskij Terhi
Job loss is one of the most significant negative shocks experienced by an individual. Job loss can lead
to
28.03.2025
Academic Publications
Effect of Secondary Education on Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills
Ollikainen Jani-Petteri
Pekkarinen Tuomas
Uusitalo Roope
Virtanen Hanna
We examine the effects of secondary education on cognitive and non-cognitive skills using admission cutoffs to general secondary
schools.
27.03.2025
Working Papers
127
Service Industries, Capital Intensity, and Labour Productivity
Kaitila Ville
We analyse the development of labour productivity in five service industries in Europe, the United States, and Japan.
Vis-à-vis
24.03.2025
Briefs
155
US Tariffs Would Seriously Hit the Finnish Economy
Ali-Yrkkö Jyrki
The United States has proposed large tariff increases, which will probably also apply to the EU. The majority
of
20.03.2025
Briefs
154
Productivity at its Highest at an Intermediate Intensity of Work from Home
Kangasharju Aki
Kauhanen Antti
Pajarinen Mika
Rouvinen Petri
We examine the relationship between remote work intensity and labor productivity using a survey of Finnish business leaders
conducted
10.03.2025
Briefs
153
The Impact of Economic Crises on Intangible Investments: Why Did Intangible Investment Decline in Finland?
Kässi Otto
This research note examines the impact of economic crises on intangible investments, with a particular focus on why
the
05.03.2025
Reports
160
What is Obstructing the Growth of Finnish Companies?
Laurikka Annu
The study examines the relationship between firm size and its management’s subjectively perceived growth constraints and financing limitations.
Additionally,
28.02.2025
Academic Publications
Micro-level Structural Change Decomposition of Carbon Productivity: Application to Electricity Generation in Finland
Kuosmanen Natalia
Kuosmanen Timo
Maczulskij Terhi
The transition to renewable energy can lead to major structural changes within the energy sector: climate policies encourage
the
27.02.2025
Academic Publications
Causally-informative analyses of the effect of job displacement on all-cause and specific-cause mortality from the 1990s Finnish recession until 2020: A population registry study of private sector employees
Zellers Stephanie
Azzi Elissar
Latvala Antti
Kaprio Jaakko
Maczulskij Terhi
Background: Job loss is related to morbidity and mortality, but generation of causal evidence is challenging due to
confounding
24.02.2025
Working Papers
126
Hiring the First Non-native Worker and Exports
Maczulskij Terhi
This study examines whether non-native workers contribute to firms’ export growth, using matched data spanning nearly three decades
and
20.02.2025
Academic Publications
Firm Responses to an Interest Barrier: Empirical Evidence
Harju Jarkko
Kauppinen Ilpo
Ropponen Olli
In this paper, we study the effects of an interest barrier (IB) that was introduced in Finland in
2014
19.02.2025
Briefs
152
Finnish Trade Sector Shows Recent Productivity Gains – Future Success Hinges on Intangible Investments
Rouvinen Petri
Pajarinen Mika
Ali-Yrkkö Jyrki
We analyze value added, productivity, and tangible and intangible investments in the retail and wholesale trade sectors (hereafter,
”trade”)
18.02.2025
Academic Publications
Optimal Resource Allocation: Convex Quantile Regression Approach
Dai Sheng
Kuosmanen Natalia
Kuosmanen Timo
Liesiö Juuso
Optimal allocation of resources across sub-units in the context of centralized decision-making systems such as bank branches or
supermarket
17.02.2025
Reports
159
Moving Faster towards a Circular Economy: A Review of Policies and Indicators
Kuusela Olli-Pekka
Ropponen Olli
Finland’s Strategic Programme for a Circular Economy seeks to increase both resource productivity and circular material use rate
twofold
13.02.2025
Other publications
Productivity Development in the Private Sector Services in Finland and Sweden – What Explains the Differences?
Koski Heli
The level of labor productivity in the Finnish services sector has been lower and growing more slowly than
in
11.02.2025
Reports
158
Economy at a Standstill: The Problem of High Marginal Tax Rates in Finland
Kuusi Tero
Kotamäki Mauri
Kirkko-Jaakkola Mikael
Our analysis indicates that high marginal tax rates may diminish economic activity and weaken public finances in Finland.
The
31.01.2025
Academic Publications
Winners and Losers of Generative AI: Early Evidence of Shifts in Freelancer Demand
Teutloff Ole
Einsiedler Johanna
Kässi Otto
Braesemann Fabian
Mishkin Pamela
del Rio-Chanona R. Maria
We examine how ChatGPT has changed the demand for freelancers in jobs where generative AI tools can act
as
28.01.2025
Reports
157
The Behavioral Effects of Inheritance, Estate and Gift Taxes
Ropponen Olli
This report examines the behavioral effects of inheritance, estate and gift taxes. It also provides an overview of
inheritance,
24.01.2025
Books
Industrial Organization Studies on Pharmaceutical Markets
Markkanen Jaakko
This thesis comprises three unpublished essays. The first essay analyzes the effectiveness of consumer choice policies in the
Nordic
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