Helsinki GSE Discussion Papers

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Helsinki GSE Discussion Papers

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  • Furloughs, Employment, and Worker Reallocation in Normal Times

    Niku Määttänen, Eero Mäkynen, Oskari Vähämaa

    Are furlough schemes useful under normal business cycle conditions? We address this question using administrative data from Finland, where such a scheme has long existed, and a model of firm dynamics …

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  • Markets, Contracts, or Firms? A Simple Model of Governance

    Tore Ellingsen and Topi Miettinen

    We build a simple formal model of governance. Investments and control rights over assets and labor are fully contractible, but final production decisions are ex ante uncontractible, and ex post …

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  • Teacher Selection in Finland

    Ramin Izadi

    Finland’s success in international student comparisons is often attributed to the quality of its teachers. In this paper I examine the teacher selection process in Finland and highlight three key new …

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