Cet article présente un modèle géographique de croissance à deux pays dans lequel les salaires nominaux des pays peuvent diverger. Ecartant l’hypothèse classique selon laquelle chaque pays a toujours un secteur traditionnel, cette étude montre qu’avec la libéralisation du commerce, un...

La crise mondiale et celle, plus récente, dans la zone euro ont eu tendance à raccourcir l’horizon prévisionnel et décisionnel de nombreux agents économiques. Dans le même temps, les incertitudes (sur l’emploi, les retraites…) poussent plutôt à la remontée du taux d’épargne des...

L’effet de la dette publique sur l’investissement privé est théoriquement indéterminé. Ce lien peut aussi bien être négatif (debt overhang, effet d’éviction) que positif (effet accélérateur sur la croissance économique et donc sur l’investissement privé). Notre étude consiste...

In this paper, we provide a new empirical analysis of the dynamic portfolio decisions of households by simultaneously considering their stock market participation and home tenure choices. There is already a huge body of literature on housing status (own/rent) decisions and many contributions...

The report looks at investment activity in Finland by industries and types of investment, and makes international comparisons. Investment rate (fixed investment in relation to GDP) fell in Finland in the early 1990s from an internationally high level to the average West European rate. Among key...

In many poor countries, the problem is not that governments do not invest, but that these investments do not create productive capital. So, the cost of public investments does not correspond to the value of the capital stocks. In this paper, we propose an original non parametric approach to...

We study how Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) measures gross fixed capital formation in foreign-owned companies. Our data include firm-level information on FDI inflows and real investment (Gross Fixed Capital Formation) by foreign-owned companies located in Finland. Our results suggest that the...

Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan Suomen kansantalouden tulevaa kehi-tystä, jos ja kun nykyiseen taantumaan liittyy myös rakennekriisi. Sen mukaan talou-den potentiaalisen tuotannon ura saattaa sekä taittua matalammalle tasolle että kasvaa sen jälkeen hitaampaa vauhtia kuin ennen. Näitä...

This report studies various categories of intangible investment in tandem with micro-level data available for research purposes at Statistics Finland. Already at the firm level the amount of intangible investment exceeds that of tangible investment, and taking it into account changes our...

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the effect of durable goods and ICT on Euro Area economic growth and productivity change; when expenditure on consumer durables is recorded as capital investment. The capitalization of consumer durables impacts both the levels and growth rates of the...