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Deregulation as a Means to Increase Competition and Productivity
Valkonen, Laura - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006
This study examines how deregulation affects product market competition and thereby productivity. Productivity grows … to renounce high rents and cut costs, which increases static efficiency. However, static efficiency boosts productivity … rivals, they ensure firms a quiet life. Deregulation has therefore great potential to boost productivity growth. This study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700385
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Revealed Technological Advantage of the Finnish Industry
Pajarinen, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2010
This study analyzes trends in specialization of the Finnish industry since the 1980s. Low technology industries, such as pulp and paper, have had traditionally a large proportion of the Finnish industrial output. During the recent decades their share of output has decreased significantly and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596271
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Distance-related Barriers and the Internationalisation of Finnish MNEs
Lundan, Sarianna M. - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2009
In an integrated global economy, multinational enterprises (MNEs) have more opportunities than ever to reap the benefits of broader markets and more possibilities for an extensive division of labour between different locations. In spite of this, the evidence on the spread of the activities of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014585
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Regional and Global Patterns of Internationalisation of Finnish MNEs
Lundan, Sarianna; Tolvanen, Juha - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008
Much of the recent evidence on the internationalisation patterns of Finnish MNEs has come from analyses of the Top 30 firms. This paper uses newly available data from the Orbis database on the foreign affiliates of Finnish MNEs, and compares this to the existing sources of data from the Bank of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818360
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The Home Country Effects of Internationalisation
Lundan, Sarianna M. - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2007
The widening range of countries acting as home and host to MNEs, and the continuing growth in all forms of cross-border economic activity, have prompted a large literature on the effects of outward MNE activity on the host countries. A smaller body of work has examined the effects on the home...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818397
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Resource allocation in health care processes: A case study
Kauhanen, Antti; Kulvik, Martti; Kulvik, Silja; … - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013
This paper utilizes queuing models to analyze health care processes. We extend previous queuing models to allow for i) heterogeneous resources, ii) resource allocation to various tasks, and iii) teams (complementary resources). We model a process of one clinical unit. We use the model to analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987357
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Kilpailukyky ja globaalin toimintaympäristön muutos - Suomen koneteollisuus maailmantaloudessa
Suni, Paavo; Ylä-Anttila, Pekka - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011
The report analyses the impacts of globalization on competitiveness of national economies, industries and firms. The focus is in mechanical and electrical engineering and machinery. Global division of labor has significantly changed over the past few decades when the large emerging economies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009251324
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Servitization as a Productive Strategy of a Firm - Evidence from the Forest-Based Industries
Viitamo, Esa - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013
to address the product-service transition is the socio-economic view of service productivity. On that basis, the paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987118
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Subsidies, Shadow of Death and Productivity
Koski, Heli; Pajarinen, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2013
business subsidies on firm productivity performance and on the relationship between firms’ lagged labor productivity and market … firms’ productivity performance. It seems that particularly employment and investment subsidies tend to be allocated to the … relatively less efficient companies. We further observe that a decline in the firm’s lagged labor productivity levels are clearly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987353
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T&K -panostusten kansantaloudelliset vaikutukset
Rantala, Olavi - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2006
R&D inputs and productivity are transmitted to domestic demand mainly through wage and private consumption growth and to … dominates the overall effect on GDP growth because an increase in R&D inputs boosts productivity in industry the most. An … most effective in terms of their impact on national productivity. Raising R&D inputs in the forest industry and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005749305