Jaana Rahko

Associate professor, tenure track (VEBIC)

Economics BSc program manager

Economics Research Group leader (autumn 2025)

CV

Teaching

Principles of Economics

Game Theory

supervising bachelor and master theses

Research

Among my research interests are economics of innovation, corporate R&D, patenting, knowledge spillovers, energy and environmental economics.

See Economics Research group.

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Latest publications

Rahko, J., Onifade, S. T., & Alola, A. A. (2025). How harmful are fossil fuel subsidies to the diffusion of low-carbon energy technologies?. Energy Economics, 108547. Rahko, J. (2025). Vertical spillovers and the energy intensity of European industries. Energy Economics, 141, 108053.

Rahko, Jaana, and Andrew Adewale Alola. "Examining green productivity amidst climate change technological development and spillovers in the Nordic economies." Journal of Cleaner Production 434 (2024): 140028. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.140028

Alola, Andrew Adewale, and Jaana Rahko. "The effects of environmental innovations and international technology spillovers on industrial and energy sector emissions–Evidence from small open economies." Technological Forecasting and Social Change 198 (2024): 123024.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2023.123024
Rahko, Jaana. "The effects of environmental investments on the economic performance of industrial plants – Evidence from Finland." Journal of Cleaner Production (2023): 136142.

Kalmi, Panu, & Rahko, Jaana (2022). "The effects of game-based financial education: New survey evidence from lower-secondary school students in Finland." The Journal of Economic Education, 53(2), 109-125.

Rahko, Jaana (2021)."R&D internationalization and firm productivity. Does the host country matter?" Applied Economics,53(16): 1807-1825

Piekkola, Hannu, Jaana Rahko (2020). “Innovative growth: the role of market power and negative selection”. Economics of innovation and new technology 29.6 (2020): 603-624. https://doi.org/10.1080/10438599.2019.1655878

Kuosmanen, Petri, Jaana Rahko, Juuso Vataja (2019). “Predictive ability of financial variables in changing economic circumstances”. The North American Journal of Economics and Finance 47 (January 2019): 37-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.najef.2018.11.012