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VATT in 2010s: More economist thinking in public debate 9.7.2020 News Juhana Vartiainen was working in Sweden as a civil servant, before he became the director general of VATT. He returned to Finland, because he felt it was his duty to alert Finns...

Do changes in unemployment insurance affect healthcare costs? 24.2.2026 Blog Miika Päällysaho What happens to healthcare expenditure when unemployment insurance is reformed? Given the interdependencies between social security and healthcare system...

Long term effects of losing a job are less severe in Northern Europe than in the rest of Europe 9.11.2023 Blog Stefano Lombardi Losing a job has dramatic consequences in the short run and these effects are persistent. However, the long-run effects...

Nordic comparative micro-data laboratory for analyses of common shocks: The case of Covid-19 Date of project : 2021 - Project ongoing This is joint project with Frisch Centre and Aarhus and Uppsala universities where the goal is to create a harmon...

Impacts of the reverse VAT liability in the construction sector Date of project : 2023 - 2024 In 2011, Finland introduced the reverse VAT liability for the construction sector as a countermeasure to the grey economy that had become prevalent in th...

Study: Savings in pharmaceutical expenditures are possible by increasing customers’ financial incentives 4.10.2023 Press release Customers are more likely to choose a cheaper drug if they have to pay out of pocket for refusing generic substitution...

Sander Ramboer Senior Researcher, PhD Housing policy Industrial and economic policy Municipalities and wellbeing services counties Income distribution and inequality Taxation [email protected] +358 259 519 506 CV @SanderRamboer Personal website Fr...

Medicine prices and pharmaceutical pricing regulation in the Nordic countries Date of project : 2020 - 2024 Pharmaceutical costs form an integral part of healthcare spending in all developed countries: In Finland, the total sales of pharmaceutical...

Anni Huhtala (PhD) has been Director General of VATT since 2015. As the Director General she is responsible for VATT’s activities, finances and results.

Energy and climate policy Finland has set the target at being carbon neutral by 2035. This will require major changes, especially in energy production and transport. VATT supports policy-making by producing research evidence of consumers’ and comp...

Energy and climate policy Finland has set the target at being carbon neutral by 2035. This will require major changes, especially in energy production and transport. VATT supports policy-making by producing research evidence of consumers’ and comp...

Doctoral dissertation: Abilities valued in employment explain some of the development in intelligence, also known as the Flynn effect 10.10.2024 Press release New information has been discovered about the long-term development in intelligence, or ...

Research Reveals That Employers Play a Key Role in Explaining the Gender Wage Gap 16.12.2025 A study conducted across 11 countries shows that employers are a major factor in why women continue to earn less than men, even when working in the same o...

How will school closures impact learning and students' labour market outcomes? 5.4.2020 Blog Tuomas Pekkarinen The move to distance teaching may reduce teaching time or hinder the learning of non-cognitive skills necessary in the job market, write...

27.4.2026 | Curriculum vitae, Marita Laukkanen VATT Institute for Economic Research https://vatt.fi/en/researcher/laukkanen-marita Arkadiankatu 7 [email protected] 00100 Helsinki Date of CV: April 24, 2026 Education and degrees awarded Title of Docent,...

9.3.2026 | 1 Janne Tukiainen Department of Economics Turku School of Economics University of Turku Rehtorinpellonkatu 3 FI-20014 University of Turku  Cell +358 50 308 3620 e-mail : [email protected] https://www.utu.fi/en/people/janne-tukiainen updated:...

6.10.2023 | Financing Innovation for Antibiotics Pierre Dubois Toulouse School of Economics Helsinki, VATT Day 2023 Introduction Antibiotics are fundamental for modern medicine But antimicrobial resistance (AMR) became one of the major urgent threats to publi...

6.10.2023 | Public-private mix in the provision of hospital services Luigi Siciliani University of York VATT conference, Helsinki, 4th October 2023 1 Outline • Public-private mix across different countries • Theory: quality, cost-containment and casemix • Emp...

Energia- ja ilmastopolitiikka Suomi pyrkii hiilineutraaliksi vuoteen 2035 mennessä, mikä edellyttää suuria muutoksia eritoten energiantuotannossa ja liikenteessä. VATT:n tutkimus tukee politiikkatoimiin liittyvää päätöksentekoa tuottamalla tietoa ...

1.10.2021 | oEconomic incentives are important oFour attributes: Old age, sickness, childbirth, and youth. oMost important margin for welfare! oMore difficult, need a broader tool box (incentives, subsidized employment, employer contacts, wage structure, lice...