Research Unit on Economic Structures and Growth

University of Helsinki
Headed by Professor Erkki Koskela
tel. +358 9 191 28757 or erkki.koskela@helsinki.fi

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The Research Unit on Economic Structures and Growth (RUESG) consists of three teams. Research in the Macrotheory, Game Theory and Applications team is focused on economic trends and expectations, economic openness and growth, economic development in Finland, incentive systems in business companies, business communication systems and the planning of auctions. The Taxation, Natural Resources and Financial Markets team is interested in labour taxation, environmental economy and taxation, the forest economy, labour mobility and the housing market and the structure of unemployment. Finally, the Time Series Econometry team is concerned to study new methods of series analysis as well as the modelling of stock and currency exchange markets. Each team is engaged in a large number of research projects, some of which cut across team boundaries or involve cooperation with outside researchers.

The Unit has a staff of 20.