. This is important for the society at large as far as future growth and competitiveness are concerned. With these activities …

In the globalized world economy the crucial issue is locational competition - where internationally competitive firms …-owned firms, conducted for this study, Finland's strengths in locational competition relate to social and economic stability, high …

the international comparisons, the price formation of the food chain, degree of concentration, competition, and the … the weak agricultural competitiveness (northern location and small farm size); on the other hand, the competitiveness of …, competition works in Finland just as well in agriculture, the foodstuffs industry and the wholesale and retail trade as it does in …

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 …