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Competitiveness and future challenges of Pohjois-Savo - A report for The Regional Council of Pohjois-Savo (in Finnish with English abstract and summary)

Hernesniemi, Hannu; Kulvik, Martti; Ylä-Anttila, Pekka - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2012

other regions. The region is specialized in forestry and machinery industries as well as food production. The forest and … timber into more lucrative products with higher value-added. Fresh, local and organic food production can be promoted via … entrepreneurial training, product development, and use of competitive bidding in purchases of fresh food products by public …

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Prospects of Economic Relations Between Finland and Russia (in Finnish with English abstract and summary).

Kotilainen, Markku; Kaitila, Ville; Widgrén, Mika; … - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2003

First, the current situation of the economic relations between Finland and Russia is described. Then the effects of future changes in Russia and its consequences for foreign relations are analysed. Key institutional changes under consideration are the enlargement of the EU, Russias likely...

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Economic Relations between Finland and the United States

Kotilainen, Markku; Kaitila, Ville; Nikula, Nuutti; … - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2009

The focus of the research is on economic relations between Finland and the United States as well as their effects on the Finnish economy and Finnish-owned firms. A substantial share of the effects are transmitted through indirect channels. In the beginning the roles of the United States in world...

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Determinants of Finnish-Russian Economic Relations

Kotilainen, Markku - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007

The broad context of the study is the main determinants of Finnish-Russian economic relations during the post-Soviet era and the prospects for the future. The study explores the determination of trade as well as foreign direct investment (FDI). The main emphasis is on the structure and...

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Oil and Reforms – Shaping the Significance of Russia for Finnish Business

Kaitila, Ville; Kotilainen, Markku - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2015

We examine the significance of Russian markets for Finnish business. After analysing Russia’s economic structures we evaluate and use econometrics to explain the development of Finnish exports there. If all re-exports are removed from export statistics, Russia’s share in Finnish goods...

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Puolan liiketoimintaympäristö ja suomalaisten yritysten kokemukset

Kaitila, Ville; Lindström, Maarit; Balcerowicz, Ewa - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2005

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Factor Intensity of Comparative Advantage in Industrialised Countries

Kaitila, Ville - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007

We analyse how comparative advantage and specialisation in foreign trade have formed with respect to factors of production. We divide 217 different sectors of manufacturing into six different classes depending on how capital, labour and knowledge-intensive the production is. We use average wages...

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Specialisation in Finnish Foreign Trade - Who Do We Compete With?

Kaitila, Ville - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007

We analyse the exports of industrialised countries in the 1996-2006 period. First, there is a short discussion of the theory of international trade and its recent theoretical developments. After that we have analysed the long-run development of the structure of Finnish exports, and its structure...

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International Investment and Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence from Small Open Economies

Kaitila, Ville; McQuinn, John; Siedschlag, Iulia; … - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013

analyse the effects of foreign mergers and acquisitions on labour productivity and employment growth up to five years after …

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The Nature of the Finnish Competitiveness Problem

Maliranta, Mika; Vihriälä, Vesa - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013

We assess Finland’s competitiveness in the light of various, mainly short-term indicators. It turns out that the weak export market performance over the last few years is linked to the deterioration of profitability of production in Finland. A better export and employment performance requires...

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