Finland has pursued a law-based work ability policy for more than a decade. Many studies indicate that it has been very successful from a health point of view. It has also been demonstrated that it is economically feasible both on a micro and a macro level. In the present study, a number of...

In this paper I analyze the local banking markets in the spatial competition context. In the model one bank is located at the one end of the unit long line and two rival banks are located at another end. Ends are considered as centers of two towns. Borrowers are located on the line between the...

This paper attempts to contrast the traditional view of there being a fundamental trade-off between productive efficiency (and/or growth) and social equality against the current knowledge on these matters as mediated by theoretical and empirical analyses reported in the more recent literature of...

According to conventional wisdom internationally mobile capital should not be taxed or should be taxed at a lower rate than labour. An important underlying assumption behind this view is that there are no market imperfections, in particular that labour markets clear competitively. At least for...

Indirect analysis of market power requires market delineation. Procedures in competition case law can be biased, as sample of market participants is typically biased or wrong one for analysis of market boundaries. Market delination can then be biased to too narrow markets, thus finding too much...

This paper addresses the question of the software companies’ timing of adoption of the open source software (OSS) business models comprising the supply of OSS products and/or services. The game-theoretic technology adoption models do not explain well the observed diffusion patterns of the OSS...

This paper provides a theoretical framework to study the behavioral and welfare effects of forest conservation, which leads to a binding harvesting constraint for landowners. The economy is modeled as a three-stage game by the interaction of the government’s conservation policy, with...

This paper studies optimal forest policies in an overlapping generations forest economy with one-sided altruism, where timber and monetary bequests can be made across generations and forest amenities are a public good. We extend the existing economics literature by demonstrating that timber...

This paper devises an e-competitiveness index attempting to measure the ability of a nation to exploit information and communication technology (ICT) to the fullest. Results of the analysis show that Finland is highly specialized in ICT provision, it has good premises to exploit ICT to the...

A company’s intellectual capital consists of a set of various non-physical sources of value, such as employee competencies, stakeholder relationships and patents. This paper examines the relationship between intellectual capital and productivity at company-level. It is based on a conceptual...