28.11.2018 Noter Publikationer 73 Tariffs and Threats: President Trump’s Trade Policy and Its Consequences to Finland Nilsson Hakkala KatariinaWang MariaKuusi Tero This Brief analyzes president Trump’s trade policy and its implications for Finland. We focus on the import tariffs imposed
25.09.2018 Noter Publikationer 72 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
29.08.2018 Noter Publikationer 71 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
23.08.2018 Noter Publikationer 70 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.
11.07.2018 Noter Publikationer 69 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 Noter Publikationer 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
05.06.2018 Noter Publikationer 67 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
25.05.2018 Noter Publikationer 66 Do Personal Data Related Innovation Boost Firm Value? Koski Heli Personal data is increasingly used in business value creation. Data from the years 2007–2014 suggest that firms’ personal data
09.05.2018 Noter Publikationer 65 Lightweight Suggestion from the Commission to Reform the Financing of the EU Budget Valkonen Tarmo EU budget is currently financed almost fully by Own Resources, which are based on customs, Gross National Income, and
12.04.2018 Noter Publikationer 64 Market Discipline and Liquidity Key Issues in the EMU Reform Vihriälä Vesa The EMU institutions need to be reformed. There is, however, a deep disagreement about the right way to proceed.
07.02.2018 Noter Publikationer 63 Etla’s Forecast Errors in 2014–2017 Berg-Andersson BirgittaKaitila VilleKaseva HannuKotilainen MarkkuLehmus Markku In forecasts for years 2014–2015 the Finnish GDP growth was overestimated, and in forecasts for years 2016–2017 it was
01.02.2018 Noter Publikationer 62 Parental Income and Application Decisions in Post-secondary Education Laukkonen Marja-Lisa In 2018, the higher education institutions should no longer use entrance examinations that require extensive preparation and, instead, evaluate
21.06.2017 Noter Publikationer 60 Export Product Range and Economic Performance – An Emphasis on Small Advanced EU Countries Kaitila Ville We analyse the number of different HS8 products in the EU countries’ exports in 1995–2015. We review what share,
07.06.2017 Noter Publikationer 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),
31.03.2017 Noter Publikationer 58 Three Measures to Safeguard Funding for Research and Education Määttänen NikuVihriälä Vesa Funding for research and education needs to be increased relative to the existing plans. This is difficult, given the
28.03.2017 Noter Publikationer 57 Supervisor’s Support and Job Satisfaction Böckerman PetriKangasniemi MariKauhanen Antti Support from supervisor and coworkers are strongly associated with better job satisfaction. The role of support is not limited
27.03.2017 Noter Publikationer 56 Does High-involvement Management Improve Productivity? Böckerman PetriKangasniemi MariKauhanen Antti There is a positive correlation between the use of high-involvement management practices and firm productivity. However, this correlation does
17.03.2017 Noter Publikationer 55 One Tenth of New Entrepreneurial Activity in Finland is Multicultural Pajarinen MikaRouvinen Petri In this brief, we study the cultural dimension of new entrepreneurial activity in Finland. One in ten nascent entrepreneurs
31.01.2017 Noter Publikationer 54 Supercell Joins a Mobile Internet Giant: Fitting into Tencent’s Overall Business Strategy Jia KaiKenney MartinSeppälä Timo On June 21, 2016, Tencent, the Chinese mobile internet giant spent $8.6 billion to purchase 84.3% stock of Supercell,
21.12.2016 Noter Publikationer 53 Earnings-related Unemployment Security, Employment and Lifetime Income Määttänen NikuValkonen Tarmo Earnings-related unemployment benefits weaken markedly the economic incentives for searching and accepting a job. This study estimates that the
21.12.2016 Noter Publikationer 52 Situation of Young NEETs Needs Better Interpretation Asplund RitaVanhala Pekka Over the past months there have been lively discussions about Finnish NEETs, i.e. those young people who are Not
08.12.2016 Noter Publikationer 51 Switching to Full Wage Indexing of Earnings Related Pension Benefits Would Be Costly Lassila JukkaMäättänen NikuValkonen Tarmo A recent citizens’ initiative calls for a switch from indexing pension benefits to consumer prices (80%) and wages (20%)
02.11.2016 Noter Publikationer 50 The Future of Work: Challenges for Men and Women Kauhanen Antti Occupational restructuring is one of the most significant recent changes in the labor markets. Occupational gender segregation means that
06.10.2016 Noter Publikationer 49 What Kind of Entrepreneurs Start High Productivity Businesses? Maliranta MikaNurmi Satu The Finnish economy is suffering from a prolonged hollow in productivity. For a solid bounce, arguably Finland would need
