The spatial concentration of production and population to urban areas is an important theme in societal discussion. The spatial concentration of economic activity is called agglomeration in urban economics. The economic impact of agglomeration is seen in the productivity of firms. Understanding...

In this paper, we analyse the economic impacts of the low-carbon roadmap made for the Finnish forest indus-tries. The analysis is based on a future scenario provid-ed by AFRY. Given the unit prices and production levels of six forest industry production categories, we assess the value added and...

The current crisis is different from the situation 2008/2009, but again it is a tremendous chal-lenge for the economies across Europe. The Corona-crisis is hitting the economies symmetri-cally, though with differences in magnitude levels, while the 2009 crisis was primarily a crisis of the...