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We characterize increases and decreases in plant-product -level output sales in the Finnish manufacturing sector during years 2006 to 2015. We show that during the recession of 2008 to 2009, the intensity of variation in plant-product -level sales diminished, and it took several years until the...
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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...
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the international comparisons, the price formation of the food chain, degree of concentration, competition, and the …, competition works in Finland just as well in agriculture, the foodstuffs industry and the wholesale and retail trade as it does in … from the standpoint of competition and consumer choice; the position of small producers can best be improved by fostering …
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The use of traditional industry-level profitability indicators for assessing the state of competition is problematic … for two reasons. First, short-term variation reflects business cycles more than it does the impact of competition policy …. Second, rough industry-level indicators hide different mechanisms that are dependent on competition but may affect …
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The report's main objective is to assess the role that competition has played in the weak development of R …&D investments in the Finnish corporate sector in the 2010s. The data suggest that the degree of competition relates to differences … concentrated, and the degree of competition in their markets weakened. In competitive industries, R&D intensity did not decrease …
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industry is the loss of the Symbian mobile phone operating system in global competition. Together with that, profitability … collapsed, and no new R&D investment opportunities of a similar size were found. However, companies should not avoid competition … 2010s also highlight the importance of international competition and international trade agreements. The decline in the …
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Europe the driving force in the electricity market reform is the electricity directive which introduces competition to … production and sales of electricity in phases. The last phase was in February 2003, by which about third of the EU electricity …
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