15.01.2020 Publications Reports 98 Complementing Tax-financed Long-term Care with Private Insurance Määttänen NikuValkonen Tarmo Many elderly people in Finland could increase they standard of living and receive more freedom of choice regarding long-term
04.12.2019 Publications Reports 97 Business Angel Investment, Public Innovation Funding and Firm Growth Ali-Yrkkö JyrkiPajarinen MikaYlhäinen Ilkka In recent years, business angels have invested in a few hundred Finnish firms annually. The target firms are mainly
02.12.2019 Publications Reports 96 Investment Expensing, Investment and Public Finances Määttänen Niku At present, businesses in Finland can deduct the cost of many investment goods from taxable income only gradually over
11.11.2019 Publications Reports 95 The Impact of EU’s Trade Sanctions Against Russia on Western Countries Exports Berg-Andersson Birgitta EU’s trade sanctions against Russia came into force 1.8.2014. Sanctioned products were exported to Russia at a value of
17.10.2019 Publications Reports 94 Workers in Declining Occupations: Modest Participation in Adult Education Asplund RitaKauhanen AnttiVanhala Pekka Occupational restructuring means that worker skills need to be updated, broadened or totally renewed. This report focuses on persons
19.09.2019 Publications Reports 93 What Are the Benefits of Data Sharing? Uniting Supply Chain and Platform Economy Perspectives Huttunen HenriSeppälä TimoLähteenmäki IlkkaMattila Juri Data as a resource and data sharing enable competitive supply chains and present-day digital platform business models. The recipe
12.08.2019 Publications Reports 92 Working Time, Employment and Competitiveness Kauhanen AnttiLehmus Markku This report studies working time and competitiveness. The first part of the report compares working time in Finland to
14.05.2019 Publications Reports 91 Immigrant-owned, Local and Global Firms in the Finnish Job and Production Restructuring Maliranta MikaNurmi Satu We examine the growth of real value added, labour input and labour productivity of immigrant-owned firms in Finland in
07.05.2019 Publications Reports 90 Pension Funds and Risk-sharing in the Finnish Earnings-related Pension System Lassila JukkaValkonen Tarmo We study the use of pension funds in the Finnish earnings-related pension system with the aim of smoothing contributions
14.03.2019 Publications Reports 89 Brexit and Indirect Impact Routes through Global Value Chains Ali-Yrkkö JyrkiKuusi Tero In this study, we analyze the trade linkages between the United Kingdom (UK), Finland, and the European Union (EU).
15.02.2019 Publications Reports 88 The Internationalization of R&D Ali-Yrkkö JyrkiPajarinen Mika The aim of this paper is to broaden the knowledge concerning the development of Finnish firms’ innovation activities. The
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
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 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
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.
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
26.02.2018 Publications Reports 81 The Application of Artificial Intelligence at Chinese Digital Platform Giants: Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent Jia KaiKenney MartinMattila JuriSeppälä Timo The Chinese digital platform giants – Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent – have quickly risen to be amongst the most
22.01.2018 Publications Reports 80 Exploitation of Research Findings as a Source of Well-being Kotiranta AnnuTahvanainen Antti-Jussi In Finland, universities have the explicit mandate to support the transformation of high-quality knowledge into profitable business, as well
20.11.2017 Publications Reports 79 Policy Implications on Company Growth – A Review Ali-Yrkkö JyrkiKotiranta AnnuYlhäinen Ilkka This report is a synthesis of the previous literature analyzing the role of different types of companies on economic
17.11.2017 Publications Reports 75 Job Banks as Mediators and Employers – A Revised Assessment of the Employment Effect of Job Banks Asplund RitaKauhanen AnttiVanhala Pekka In this report, we re-assess the role of so-called job banks as mediators into the open labour market but
23.10.2017 Publications Reports 78 Distributed Workflow Management with Smart Contracts Hukkinen TaneliMattila JuriSeppälä Timo This report documents a blockchain application developed for the real estate sector. The application enables distributed workflow management in
13.10.2017 Publications Reports 77 Productivity Divergence – Frontier Firms vs. the Others Pajarinen MikaRouvinen PetriYlhäinen Ilkka International literature suggests that productivity growth of the global frontier firms – those in the best five percent –
04.10.2017 Publications Reports 76 Shield the US from Imports! – GDP Impacts on Finland and Other European Union Member States Ali-Yrkkö JyrkiKuusi Tero We analyze the value-added impacts of rising (United States) US protectionism on Finland and other European Union (EU) member
