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...

Russia has greatly benefited both from exporting more energy commodities in volume terms and from the improvement of its terms of trade due to the rise in oil and other commodity prices in the 2000s. To study the impacts, the counterfactual simulation for the years 2001-2006 and the usual oil...

Selvityksessä arvioidaan EU-maiden kasvihuonekaasupäästöjen kehitystä lähivuosina. Raportissa tarkastellaan myös päästökehityksen taustalla olevaa talouden ja energian kysynnän kasvua sekä päästörajoitustoimenpiteiden vaikutusta Suomen ja suurten EU-maiden kokonaistaloudelliseen...

This study focuses on the labour cost competitiveness of the paper and pulp industry in China and Finland in particular, using the corresponding German, the US and Estonian industries as a point of comparison in the early 2000s. This study deepens the analysis of the earlier study of the cost...

This study focuses on the labour cost competitiveness of fabricated metal industry in China and Finland in particular, using the corresponding German, the US and Estonian industries as a point of comparison in the early 2000s. This study deepens the analysis of the earlier study of the cost...

This study focuses on the labour cost competitiveness of the chemical industries in China and Finland in particular, using the corresponding German, the US and Estonian industries as a point of comparison in the early 2000s. This study deepens the analysis of the earlier study of the cost...

The study shows that the exceptional drop in volume of Finlands GDP in 2009 as much as 8 per cent was to a large extent due to huge decline in exports and production of one industry, ICT. The contribution of ICT (or electronics and electro-technical industry) to GDP decline was close to two...