12.11.2018 Publications Reports 87 Finland’s Growth Performance – The Lost Decade and the Prospects in the Near Term Kaitila VilleKauhanen AnttiKuusi TeroLehmus MarkkuMaliranta MikaVihriälä Vesa In the report we analyse the reasons for the weakness of Finland’s economic performance over the past decade and
05.11.2018 Publications Working Papers 62 Nowcasting the Unemployment Rate in the EU with Seasonal BVAR and Google Search Data Anttonen Jetro In this paper a Bayesian vector autoregressive model for nowcasting the seasonally non-adjusted unemployment rate in EU-countries is developed.
02.11.2018 Publications Reports 86 Who Holds the Reins? – Banks in the Crossfire of Global Platforms Mattila JuriSeppälä TimoLähteenmäki Ilkka Banking and financial services have traditionally been a heavily regulated industry where technology alone has not been a sufficient
30.10.2018 Other publications Publications Robotic Process Automation and Artificial Intelligence – Application Roadmap Kääriäinen JukkaAihkisalo TommiHalén MarcoHolmström HaraldJurmu PetriMatinmikko TapioSeppälä TimoTihinen MaaritTirronen Justus This report outlines findings of the RoboÄly project (Public-sector development needs for robotic process automation and artificial intelligence –
30.10.2018 Publications Reports 85 Upworkers in Finland: Survey Results Pajarinen MikaRouvinen PetriClaussen JörgHakanen JariKovalainen AnneKretschmer TobiasPoutanen SeppoSeifried MareikeSeppänen Laura Upwork is the world’s largest online labor market platform connecting clients with freelance professionals from various disciplines ranging from
26.10.2018 Publications Working Papers 61 How Do Competition Policy and Data Brokers Shape Product Market Competition? Koski Heli This paper empirically analyzes how a data broker affects competition in oligopolistic product markets. It examines a unique case
05.10.2018 Other publications Publications A Comprehensive Cyber Security Approach: Bolstering Cybersecurity Capacity Through Industrial Policy Griffith Melissa K. This paper is part of a project “Comparative Industrial Policy in the Cyber Security Industry: Policies, Drivers, and International
25.09.2018 Briefs Publications Impacts of the Largest Export Guaranteed Operations in Finland Ali-Yrkkö JyrkiKuusi Tero This study focuses on the impacts of the largest export guaranteed operations on employment and value added including effects
20.09.2018 Other publications Publications Tools for Artificial Intelligence Discussion Ailisto HeikkiHeikkilä EetuHelaakoski HeliNeuvonen AnssiSeppälä Timo Artificial intelligence enables machines, software, systems and services to act reasonably according to their task and situation. This Policy
14.09.2018 Publications Reports 84 Who Holds the Reins? – Banks in the Crossfire of Global Platforms Mattila JuriSeppälä TimoLähteenmäki Ilkka Banking and financial services have traditionally been a heavily regulated industry where technology alone has not been a sufficient
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.
29.08.2018 Briefs Publications Data Ownership and Governance – Finnish Law Perspective Seppälä TimoJuhanko JariMattila Juri As a general rule, information and data cannot be owned. Information and data may belong to various actors, but
28.08.2018 Academic Publications Publications Longevity, Working Lives, and Public Finances Lassila JukkaValkonen Tarmo We find that linking statutory retirement ages to life expectancy is a promising way to extend working lives and
28.08.2018 Other publications Publications Longevity and Taxation of Public Pensions: Finland Lassila JukkaValkonen Tarmo Jukka Lassila and Tarmo Valkonen. Longevity and Taxation of Public Pensions: Finland. Chapter 13 in "The Taxation of Pensions".
24.08.2018 Publications Working Papers 60 Missing Growth in Finland Anttila Juho This study investigates the extent of ’missing growth’ in Finland due to upward bias in the cost-of-living measurement. This
23.08.2018 Briefs Publications Finland Needs New Ways of Financing Transport Infrastructure Hyytinen AriMäättänen NikuVihriälä Vesa Motor fuel tax revenue is likely to decrease in the coming years because of the shift to electric cars.
09.05.2018 Academic Publications Publications Performance Pay and Enterprise Productivity: The Details Matter Kato TakaoKauhanen Antti Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide novel and rigorous evidence on the productivity effect of varying
12.07.2018 Academic Publications Publications Expanding the Platform: Smart Contracts as Boundary Resources Lauslahti KristianMattila JuriHukkinen TaneliSeppälä Timo Platform businesses are born global, with instant access to global markets. Thanks to the algorithmic, self-executing and self-enforcing computer
07.08.2018 Academic Publications Publications Output Gap Uncertainty and the Optimal Fiscal Policy in the EU Kuusi Tero Abstract Using a novel dataset, I quantify the magnitude of the EU-27 countries’ output gap revisions in 2002–2014, and
12.07.2018 Academic Publications Publications Distributed Governance in Multi-sided Platforms: A Conceptual Framework from Case: Bitcoin Mattila JuriSeppälä Timo Over the last decade, blockchain technology has facilitated a method by which a network of equipotent and equally privileged
11.07.2018 Briefs Publications Forecasting Activity at Etla in 1971–2018 Kotilainen Markku The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (Etla) started its business cycle forecasting activity in 1971. Forecasts have thus
25.06.2018 Briefs Publications 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
15.06.2018 Academic Publications Publications The Finnish Great Depression of the 1990s: reconciling theory and evidence Kuusi Tero Abstract This paper reconciles quantitative macroeconomic theory of the Finnish Great Depression and the empirical evidence. The main controversy
05.06.2018 Briefs Publications The Role of Individuals, Firms and the Society in Lifelong Learning Kauhanen Antti Labor market restructuring has sparked discussion on lifelong learning. One important question deals with the proper distribution of responsibility
