10.09.2020 Julkaisut Working Papers 82 Supranationalism, Sino-American Technology Separation, and Semiconductors: First Observations Holmström HaraldSeppälä Timo Global forces have shaped the world since the industrial and digital ages. A recent perspective on globalization acknowledges the
01.07.2020 Julkaisut Working Papers 81 Killers on the Road of Emerging Start-ups – Implications for Market Entry and Venture Capital Financing Koski HeliKässi OttoBraesemann Fabian This paper empirically studies the effect of acquisitions made by the large US-based technology companies on the entry dynamics
30.06.2020 Julkaisut 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,
23.04.2020 Julkaisut Working Papers 79 Construction Value Chains and Their Productivity Growth Kuusi TeroJunnonen Juha-MattiKulvik Martti The construction industry has suffered from low growth in recent decades. Motivated by the economic importance of the industry,
23.04.2020 Julkaisut Working Papers 78 Digitalization and Platforms in Agriculture: Organizations, Power Asymmetry, and Collective Action Solutions Kenney MartinSerhan HiamTrystram Gilles Technologies such as digitally-equipped agricultural equipment, drones, image recognition, sensors, robots and artificial intelligence are being rapidly adopted throughout
25.02.2020 Julkaisut Working Papers 77 Short-term Impacts of the GDPR on Firm Performance Koski HeliValmari Nelli This paper uses extensive firm-level data on European and US companies from 2014–2018 to explore the short-term impacts of
06.02.2020 Julkaisut Working Papers 76 Artificial Intelligence Platforms – A New Research Agenda for Digital Platform Economy Mucha TomaszSeppälä Timo Three out of nine of S&P500 digital platform companies stand out as building own artificial intelligence (AI) platforms. There
30.12.2019 Julkaisut Working Papers 75 Losing a Job and (Dis)incentives to Move Maczulskij TerhiBöckerman Petri We examine the economic determinants of interregional mobility. Using plant closures and mass lay-offs for identification, we show that
20.12.2019 Julkaisut Working Papers 74 Alternative Demography-based Projection Approaches for Public Health and Long-term Care Expenditure Lassila JukkaValkonen Tarmo Ageing populations pose a major challenge for long-term sustainability of public finances. The respond has been a wave of
09.12.2019 Julkaisut Working Papers 73 The Costs of Job Loss and Task Usage Kauhanen AnttiRiukula Krista This study examines the degree to which the effects of job loss depend on task usage and task distance
19.11.2019 Julkaisut Working Papers 72 Data Markets in Making: The Role of Technology Giants Koski HeliPantzar Mika This paper focuses on the role of large technology companies’ entry and expansion to the data-intensive market areas via
30.10.2019 Julkaisut Working Papers 71 Emerging Trade Battlefield with China: Export Competition and Firm’s Coping Strategies Nilsson Hakkala KatariinaPan Yao This paper analyzes how intensified Chinese export competition affects the exports and product ranges of firms from Finland. Using
30.10.2019 Julkaisut Working Papers 70 Service Imports, Workforce Composition, and Firm Performance: Evidence from Finnish Microdata Ariu AndreaNilsson Hakkala KatariinaJensen J. BradfordTamminen Saara This paper uses unique Finnish firm-level micro data on service imports, workforce composition, and firm characteristics to examine changes
23.09.2019 Julkaisut Working Papers 69 Management Practises in Finnish Manufacturing Establishments: Evidence from FMOP Ohlsbom RoopeMaliranta Mika Data collected by the recently conducted Finnish Management and Organizational Practices Survey (FMOP) by Statistics Finland is used to
20.08.2019 Julkaisut Working Papers 68 Artificial Intelligence Applications & Venture Funding in Healthcare Halminen OlliTenhunen HenniHeliste AnttiSeppälä Timo Venture Capital (VC) funding raised by companies producing Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions is on the rise. In healthcare, VC
18.04.2019 Julkaisut Working Papers 67 The Influence of Old-age Retirement on Health: Causal Evidence from the Finnish Register Data Kuusi TeroMartikainen PekkaValkonen Tarmo We quantify the impact of old-age retirement on health using longitudinal Finnish register data for the period 2000–2012, which
02.04.2019 Julkaisut Working Papers 66 Top 3: Pension Systems in Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands Hougaard Jensen Svend E.Lassila JukkaMäättänen NikuValkonen TarmoWesterhout Ed According to the 2018 Mercer Global Pension index, the pension systems of Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands are the
13.03.2019 Julkaisut Working Papers 65 Labor Market Returns to Vocational Secondary Education Silliman MikkoVirtanen Hanna We study labor-market returns to vocational versus general secondary education using a regression discontinuity design created by the centralized
13.03.2019 Julkaisut Working Papers 64 Lost Boys: Access to Secondary Education and Crime Huttunen KristiinaPekkarinen TuomasUusitalo RoopeVirtanen Hanna We study the effect of post-compulsory education on crime by exploiting a regression discontinuity design generated by admission cut-offs
01.02.2019 Julkaisut 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
05.11.2018 Julkaisut 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.
26.10.2018 Julkaisut 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
24.08.2018 Julkaisut 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
25.05.2018 Julkaisut Working Papers 59 Investor Attention and Technology Salience: Does Personal Data Related Innovation Boost Firm Value? Koski HeliLuukkonen Juha This paper empirically analyzes how markets value personal data related innovation in four prominent domains, in which firms’ potential
