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...

Public sector organizations are important producers of the core geographic information (GI). Data sharing is aggravated by e.g. highly varying policies to sharing and pricing the data. For instance, since the governmental data producer sets the price level high, it seems to restrict innovative...

In the report we analyse the reasons for the weakness of Finland’s economic performance over the past decade and assess the growth prospects in the coming 5 years. The weakness of Finland’s performance relative to comparative EU-countries since 2009 can largely be explained by the collapse...

In this paper, we describe key problems of the current EU's fiscal framework and offer constructive alternatives to reforming it. A comprehensive reassessment of the rules is necessary, as the development of the rules has reached an impasse for both political and technical reasons. In our view,...

In this paper, we describe key problems of the current EU's fiscal framework and offer constructive alternatives to reforming it. A comprehensive reassessment of the rules is necessary, as the development of the rules has reached an impasse for both political and technical reasons. In our view,...

Tutkimuksessa kehitetään mallia, jolla voidaan arvioida sosiaa-lietuuksien kustannusten vaikutuksia tuottajahintoihin sekä valtakunnallisiin ja alueel-lisiin kuluttajahintoihin. Tuottajahintoja määrittävä panos-tuotoshintamalli ottaa huo-mioon sosiaalietuuksien rahoitukseen käytettävien...

Tutkimuksessa kehitetään mallia, jolla voidaan arvioida sosiaa-lietuuksien kustannusten vaikutuksia tuottaja- ja kuluttajahintoihin sekä erityyppisten ja sosioekonomiselta asemaltaan erilaisten kotitalouksien hyvinvointiin. Tuottajahin-toja määrittävällä panos-tuotoshintamallilla voidaan...