Vesa Kanniainen

University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies

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FIN-00014 Helsinki

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1.

The Optimal Portfolio of Start-Up Firms in Venture Capital Finance

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 381
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 26 Jan 2001
Vesa Kanniainen and Christian Keuschnigg
University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies and University of St. Gallen – Department of Economics (FGN-HSG)
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Venture capital finance, double-sided moral hazard, company portfolio

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Start-Up Investment with Scarce Venture Capital Support

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 439, University of St. Gallen Dept. of Econ Discussion Paper No. 2001-04, EFMA 2001 Lugano Meetings
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 12 Mar 2001
Vesa Kanniainen and Christian Keuschnigg
University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies and University of St. Gallen – Department of Economics (FGN-HSG)
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Venture Capital, Company Portfolio, Managerial Advice, Economic Rents

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Imperfect Transmission of Tacit Knowledge and Other Barriers to Entrepreneurship

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Imperfect Transmission of Tacit Knowledge and Other Barriers to Entrepreneurship

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2859, CESifo Working Paper No. 2053
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 18 Jul 2007
Panu Poutvaara and Vesa Kanniainen
University of Helsinki - Department of Economics and University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies
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barriers to entrepreneurship, tacit knowledge, occupational choice

Imperfect Transmission of Tacit Knowledge and Other Barriers to Entrepreneurship

Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, Vol. 28, No. 4, 2007
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 12 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 10 May 2008
Vesa Kanniainen and Panu Poutvaara
University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies and University of Helsinki - Department of Economics
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barriers to entrepreneurship, tacit knowledge

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Innovation of Network Goods: A Non-Innovating Firm Will Gain

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 692
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 27 May 2002
Amihai Glazer, Vesa Kanniainen and Mikko Mustonen
University of California, Irvine - Department of Economics, University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies and University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies
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Network Goods, Free Riding, Innovation, Telecommunications

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The Start-Up and Growth Stages in Enterprise Formation: The 'New View' of Dividend Taxation Reconsidered

CESifo Working Paper No. 1476
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 19 Jul 2005
Vesa Kanniainen, Seppo Juhani Kari and Jouko Ylä-Liedenpohja
University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies, Government of the Republic of Finland - VATT Institute for Economic Research and Tampere University - Department of Economics
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taxation of start-up enterprises

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Entrepreneurship, Economic Risks, and Risk Insurance in the Welfare State: Results with OECD Data 1978-93

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 356
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 27 Mar 2001
Pekka Ilmakunnas and Vesa Kanniainen
Aalto University School of Business and University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies
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Entrepreneurship, risks, the welfare state, social risk insurance, crowding-out

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Firms' Ethics, Consumer Boycotts, and Signalling

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Firms' Ethics, Consumer Boycotts, and Signalling

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2323
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 13 Jun 2008
Amihai Glazer, Vesa Kanniainen and Panu Poutvaara
University of California, Irvine - Department of Economics, University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies and University of Helsinki - Department of Economics
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firm's ethical code, consumer morality, boycotts

Firms' Ethics, Consumer Boycotts, and Signalling

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3498
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 05 Jun 2008
Amihai Glazer, Vesa Kanniainen and Panu Poutvaara
University of California, Irvine - Department of Economics, University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies and University of Helsinki - Department of Economics
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firm's ethical code, consumer morality, boycotts

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Entrepreneurship in a Unionised Economy

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 379
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 26 Jan 2001
Vesa Kanniainen and Mikko Leppämäki
University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies and Aalto University
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Entrepreneurship, labor market institutions, occupational choice, unions

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Bequests, Control Rights, and Cost-Benefit Analysis

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 576
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 30 Oct 2001
Amihai Glazer, Vesa Kanniainen and Esko Niskanen
University of California, Irvine - Department of Economics, University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies and University of Helsinki
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Public Projects, Cost-benefit Analysis

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Initial Luck, Status-Seeking and Snowballs Lead to Corporate Success and Failure

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1426; CESifo Working Paper Series No. 1216
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 29 Jun 2004
Amihai Glazer, Vesa Kanniainen and Panu Poutvaara
University of California, Irvine - Department of Economics, University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies and University of Helsinki - Department of Economics
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industry equilibrium, initial luck, status effects

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Income Taxes, Property Values, and Migration

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Income Taxes, Property Values, and Migration

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 1075
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 10 Nov 2003
Amihai Glazer, Vesa Kanniainen and Panu Poutvaara
University of California, Irvine - Department of Economics, University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies and University of Helsinki - Department of Economics
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taxes, land rents, property values, migration, redistribution

Income Taxes, Property Values and Migration

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1889
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 13 Jan 2006
Amihai Glazer, Vesa Kanniainen and Panu Poutvaara
University of California, Irvine - Department of Economics, University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies and University of Helsinki - Department of Economics
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taxes, land rents, property values, migration, redistribution

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Nordic Dual Income Taxation of Entrepreneurs

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 1623
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 13 Jan 2006
Vesa Kanniainen, Seppo Juhani Kari and Jouko Ylä-Liedenpohja
University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies, Government of the Republic of Finland - VATT Institute for Economic Research and Tampere University - Department of Economics
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dual income taxation, enterprise taxes

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Tax Neutrality: Illusion or Reality? The Case of Entrepreneurship

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2306
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 27 May 2008
Vesa Kanniainen and Paolo M. Panteghini
University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies and Department of Economics and Management
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ACE tax, cash flow tax, dividend tax, Johansson-Samuelson theorem, real options

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Enterprise Formation and Labor Market Institutions

CESifo Working Paper No. 359
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 08 Aug 2001
Vesa Kanniainen and Timo Vesala
University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies and University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies
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Entrepreneurship, labor protection, labor unions

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Anonymous Money, Moral Sentiments and Welfare

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 1258
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 27 Sep 2004
Vesa Kanniainen and Jenni Paakkonen
University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies and Government of the Republic of Finland - VATT Institute for Economic Research
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moral sentiments, shadow economy, welfare

16.

Honeybee Economics - Implications for Ecology Policy

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 4204
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 01 May 2013
Vesa Kanniainen, Tuula Lehtonen and Ilkka Mellin
University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies, Finnish Beekeepers' Association and Aalto University
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economics of honeybees, pollination, quality of life, ecology policy, optimal tax and subsidy

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The Effects of Employment Protection on the Choice of Risky Projects

CESifo Working Paper No. 689
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 13 May 2002
Amihai Glazer and Vesa Kanniainen
University of California, Irvine - Department of Economics and University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies
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Project Choice, Labor Protection

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Term Length and the Quality of Appointments

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 380
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 26 Jan 2001
Amihai Glazer and Vesa Kanniainen
University of California, Irvine - Department of Economics and University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies
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Hiring tenure, quality of appointment

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Financial Institutions and the Allocation of Talent

Bank of Finland Research Discussion Paper No. 5/2002
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 10 Oct 2007
Vesa Kanniainen and Mikko Leppämäki
University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies and Aalto University
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allocation of talent, asymmetric information, financial institutions, venture capital, institutional equilibrium

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Cyber Technology and Arms Race

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6365
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 27 Mar 2017
Vesa Kanniainen
University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies
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military conflicts, cyber war, arms race

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Making the World a Better Place: Consumers' Group Identity in the Markets with Competition and Two-Sided Opportunism

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5842
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 27 Apr 2016
Vesa Kanniainen
University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies
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consumer boycotts, social identity, market opportunism, competition

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The Value of NATO Option for a New Member

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5399
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 25 Jun 2015
Vesa Kanniainen and Staffan Ringbom
University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies and Hanken School of Economics
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alliance, national security, free riding, safety classification

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Security Gradient and National Defense - The Optimal Choice between a Draft Army and a Professional Army

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 4707
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 16 Apr 2014
Vesa Kanniainen and Staffan Ringbom
University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies and Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration
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national security, draft, professional army, risk class

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Offset Contracts As an Insurance Device in Building the National Security

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6445
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 01 Jun 2017
Vesa Kanniainen and Juha-Matti Lehtonen
University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies and Finnish National Defense University
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offsets, national security, defence material, insurance

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Pricing the Pharmaceuticals When the Ability to Pay Differs: Taking Vertical Equity Seriously

CESifo Working Paper No. 8031
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 23 Jan 2020
Vesa Kanniainen, Juha Laine and Ismo Linnosmaa
University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies, Pfizer, Inc. and Government of the Republic of Finland - National Institute for Health and Welfare
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pharmaceutical products, price regulation, public health insurance, third-degree price discrimination, equity criterion

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Why to Invest in Your Neighbor? Social Contract on Educational Investment

International Tax and Public Finance, Forthcoming
Posted: 18 Jun 2001
Vesa Kanniainen and Panu Poutvaara
University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies and University of Helsinki - Department of Economics

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Externalities in education, complementarity, social contract, tax competition

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Price Uncertainty and Investment Behavior of Corporate Management Under Risk Aversion and Preference for Prudence

Center for Economic Studies Working Paper at University of Munich, Number 80
Posted: 10 Oct 1998
Vesa Kanniainen
University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies

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Valuation of Irreversible Entry Options Under Uncertainty and Taxation

Center for Economic Studies WP No. 144
Posted: 11 Feb 1998
Vesa Kanniainen and Luis Hernan Radomiro Alvarez
University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies and University of Turku - Turku School of Economics

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