In Finland, universities have the explicit mandate to support the transformation of high-quality knowledge into profitable business, as well as to promote the creation of new businesses and workplaces within the boundaries of their so-called third mission. This report looks at how Finnish...

Social institutions are persistent regularities in contracting and other relations amongst men and in the unintended consequences of such rule-like behavior. They include morality and law as well as institutions of governance such as branding and advertising. Institutions are studied in all...

We analyze the impact of the Finnish tax-benefit system on the financial incentives to take up a job and to work more. The analysis is conducted with the Finnish microsimulation model SISU in 2015-2021. We analyze the presence of unemployment traps in the population and characterize the...

Tässä tutkimuksessa selvitetään tuotannontekijöiden vaihdettavuuteen perustuvan kaksoishyötyhypoteesin soveltuvuutta Suomeen. Lähtökohtana on pieni avoin talous, joka käyttää tuotannossaan ulkomailta tuotua energiaa ja kotimaista työtä. Vihreän tuloneutraalin veroreformin...

We analyze the impact of the Finnish tax-benefit system on the financial incentives to take up a job and to work more. The analysis is conducted with the Finnish microsimulation model SISU in 2015–2021. We analyze the presence of unemployment traps in the population and characterize the...