Population ageing constitutes a central challenge to Finland. Understanding the Finnish economy's likely future trajectory and the key sources of growth is important for the design of policies to counteract these adverse long-term trends. For this purpose, we develop a novel long-run forecast...

This paper investigates the impact of public capital on private sector output by testing and estimating an aggregate production function for the U.S. economy over the postwar period augmented to include the stock of public capital as an additional factor input. We use patent applications to...

Анализируются статистические данные об объемах инвестирования в различные сферы социально-экономической системы Удмуртской Республики с 1996 по 2010 год. С учетом...

A mathematical model of regional economic system taking in account both the material and human capital is presented. An algorithm of identification of model unknown parameters on the basis of a genetic algorithm with material coding and the Hook-Zeeves method is constructed. Identification and...

Purpose – This essay aims to introduce horizon scanning as an approach fundamental to most foresight studies. Design/methodology/approach – The essay combines a general review of the topic with an overview of a range of horizon‐scanning approaches that are in use in the UK health system....