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Vol. 19, No. 1 Andreas Knabe and Peter Birch Sørensen: Outsourcing of Public Service Provision: When is it more efficient? (pp. 3–15) Abstract Outsourcing to for-profit producers of social services will enable a local government to achieve a given service

Vol. 18, No. 2 Mark Weder: Indeterminacy Revisited: Variable Capital Utilization and Returns to Scale (pp. 49–56) Abstract This paper presents a one-sector optimal growth model with variable capacity services and production externalities. It uses a new formulation of the

Vol. 18, No. 1 Marja-Liisa Halko: Financing of Unemployment Insurance under Wage Bargaining (pp. 3–15) Abstract In conventional trade union models, it is assumed that the unemployment benefits of the unemployed union members are provided by the government. We examine

Vol. 17, No. 2 Petri Rouvinen: Is Technology Policy Practised as It Is Preached (pp. 51–62) Abstract The second Finnish Community Innovation Survey is used to study whether the technology policy practice was consistent with the official rhetoric in the

Vol. 17, No. 1 Satu Nurmi: Plant Size, Age and Growth in Finnish Manufacturing (pp. 3–17) Abstract The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between plant size, age and employment growth in Finnish manufacturing during the period

Vol. 16, No. 2 Maria Kopsakangas-Savolainen: Quantity versus Price Competition in the Deregulated Finnish Electricity Markets (pp. 51–60) Abstract The main motivation to deregulate Finnish electricity markets and introduce competition to the industry was to improve efficiency and obtain lower

Vol. 16, No. 1 Philippe Michel, Oliver Paddison and Pierre Pestieau: Old Age Consumption and Pension Policy in a Two-Tier Developing Economy (pp. 3–14) Abstract In a number of developing countries, an important part of the economy is informal both

Vol. 15, No. 2 Rune Stenbacka: Microeconomic Policies in the New Economy (pp. 59–75) Abstract This survey emphasizes innovation-intensive competition, strong technological scale economies, switching costs, network effects and complementarity between system components as characteristic features of the core industries

Vol. 15, No. 1 Eva M. Meyersson-Milgrom, Trond Petersen and Rita Asplund: Pay, Risk, and Productivity. The case of Finland 1980–1996 (pp. 3–23) Abstract This paper reports on four topics. To what extent are piece-rate systems used among manufacturing workers

Vol. 14, No. 2 Jesper Lindé: Fiscal policy and interest rates in a small open economy (pp. 65–83) Abstract This paper contains an empirical investigation of the effects of fiscal policy on interest rates based on a conventional stochastic macro