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Economics Research Group

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About the research group

The research group emphasizes the importance of competence. The most important factors in productivity growth are investment in education, economic literacy, research, innovation and digitalisation, which can be influenced both directly and indirectly by economic and environmental policies.

The research group's projects have a strong societal impact. Project leaders will take part in current discussions related to, among other things, innovation policy and the development of economics education.

The research group focuses particularly on the following themes:

  • Competence: innovation and intangible capital in companies and the economy
  • Financial literacy and financial education
  • Firm-level energy and environmental economics issues
  • Banking and macroeconomic stability
  • Connections and interactions between financial markets and the real world

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Research projects

Project Duration Actors
TRANSFORM-AI: Leveraging Leadership, Innovation, and Intangible Capital for Sustainable Growth in the Age of AI - Economics, Accounting and Finance
Misleading Consumers - Marketing and Consumption Research, Communication studies, Economics, Public policy and governance, Cyber-Physical Systems, Marketing and Communication, Accounting and Finance, Management
Investigame - Economics, Accounting and Finance, Technology and Innovations, Cyber-Physical Systems
CEE4WES - Circular Economy Ecosystem for Waste-to-Energy Sector - VEBIC, Strategic business development, Economics, Management, Accounting and Finance, Smart electric systems
GLOBALINTO - Economics, Accounting and Finance

Publications

Publication year Publication Authors
2025 Acquiring talent: does ownership help? Busk, Henna; Nivalainen, Satu; Ruuskanen, Olli-Pekka
2025 "New spectrum of intangible assets" Caloghirou, Yannis; Piekkola, Hannu; Bounfour, Ahmed
2025 Price-increasing competition by heterogeneous marketing strategies Kultti, Klaus; Pekkarinen, Teemu
2025 From brown to green: how renewable deployment and geopolitical risk shape the pathway to a sustainable energy market transition Badeeb, Ramez Abubakr; Lean, Hooi Hooi
2025 R&D effort and knowledge sourcing: the search for better profitability and higher growth Piekkola, Hannu
2025 How does energy management AI technology innovation promote environmental mitigation? Baffour Gyau, Emmanuel; Li, Yaya; Appiah, Michael; Gyamfi, Bright Akwasi; Onifade, Stephen Taiwo
2025 The role of financial literacy in payment defaults Mustonen, Jaakko; Buturak, Gökhan; Ruuskanen, Olli-Pekka; Kalmi, Panu; Vaahtoniemi, Saara
2025 Energy-related risk and renewable energy sources across the G7 economies: A matter of reliability and low carbon Özkan, Oktay; Onifade, Stephen Taiwo; Alola, Andrew Adewale
2025 Intangibles From Intangible Capital Work: Their Valuation and Technological Change Piekkola, Hannu; Bloch, Carter; Rybalka, Marina; Redek, Tjaša
2025 How harmful are fossil fuel subsidies to the diffusion of low-carbon energy technologies? Rahko, Jaana; Onifade, Stephen Taiwo; Alola, Andrew Adewale
Jaana Rahko

Jaana Rahko

Associate Professor (tenure track)
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Panu Kalmi

Panu Kalmi

Professor
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Hannu Piekkola

Hannu Piekkola

Professor, Economics
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Olli-Pekka Ruuskanen

Olli-Pekka Ruuskanen

Professor
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Ramez Ba Deeb

Ramez Ba Deeb

Associate Professor (tenure track)
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Stephen Onifade

Stephen Onifade

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Jaana Rahko

Jaana Rahko

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Petri Kuosmanen

Petri Kuosmanen

University Lecturer
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Teemu Pekkarinen

Teemu Pekkarinen

University Teacher
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Saija Alanko

Saija Alanko

Project Researcher
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Nimra Arshad

Doctoral Researcher
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Masoumeh Farshadfar

Project Researcher
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Hamid Hosseininesaz

Doctoral Researcher
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Binh Lai

Doctoral Researcher
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Jaakko Mustonen

Project Researcher
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Andre Nyman

Doctoral Researcher
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Vesa Loven

Vesa Loven

Doctoral Researcher
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Lauri Parikka

Teacher
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Ulviyya Pekkarinen

Ulviyya Pekkarinen

Doctoral Researcher
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Aaron Kiverä

Research Assistant
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