This study considers employment and productivity growth generated by the public funding of R&D using linked employer-employee data in Finland. Public subsidies, instrumented by available public R&D funding in the industry/region, have a positive effect on productivity growth in small and...

This paper studies the effect of foreign-owned companies (FOCs) in the region on establishment survival and growth in the Finnish business sector. We analyze whether the presence of the FOCs has asymmetric effects among the local businesses. Foreign presence in the region is measured in a novel...

The paper presents an alternative derivation of the gravity equation for foreign trade, which is explicitly based on monopolistic competition in the export markets and which is more general than previously in the literature. In contrast to the usual specification, our model allows for the...

The effect of foreign-owned companies on entrepreneurial survival in the Finnish business sector is analyzed by using a new, exceptionally rich linked data on employees, entrepreneurs and their companies. Our new indicator of foreign presence, based on the observed spatial scopes of the local...

This study analyses how public R&D financing impacts companies. Our main goal is to study whether public and private R&D financing are substitutes or complements, and whether this impact differs between financially constrained and unconstrained companies. Our company-level panel data cover the...

Raportissa tarkastellaan sotilaallisen t&k-panostuksen ja kilpailukyvyn välisiä yhteyksiä. Aineistona käytetään brittiläisen International Institute for Strategic Studies -laitoksen (IISS) ”The Military Balance” -raportin tietoja länsimaiden sotilaallisen t&kpanostuksen...

Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan ns. luovien toimialojen ja kulttuurialojen merkitystä Suomen kansantaloudessa tilastollisen lähdemateriaalin valossa. Erityistarkastelussa on taidekoulutettujen sijoittuminen alueittain ja toimialoittain Suomessa perustuen Tilastokeskuksen Fleed -tietokantaan...

In the presence of network externalities, demand is strongly affected by major technology diffusion processes. Therefore, not only sales levels, but also the installed user base of network technologies may influence R&D intensity via the price mechanism. This causality may, however, not be...

Tämä selvitys tarkastelee yrittäjiä, jotka kuuluvat Ekonomiliittoon, Insinööriliittoon tai Tekniikan akateemisiin. Palkkakyselyihin perustuva aineisto kattaa vuodet 1999-2002. Selvityksessä keskitytään tuloihin ja työaikaan. Huolimatta keskittymisestä korkeasti koulutettuihin, ovat...