Research
Journal publications
Nilsson Hakkala, Katariina. 2026. “Service Imports, Workforce Composition, and Firm Performance: Evidence from Finnish Microdata,” NBER Working Paper 26355, Accepted to European Economic Review, May 2026. With A. Ariu, B.J. Jensen, S. Tamminen. Also featured in VOXEU.
Nilsson Hakkala, Katariina. 2026. “Firm-Level Responses to Export Demand Shocks: Swedish and Finnish Exporters,” Economica, online issue before publication in a printed issue. With T. Maczulskij and Z. El-Sahli.
Nilsson Hakkala, Katariina. 2024 .“Emerging Trade Battlefield with China: Export Competition and Coping Strategies of Finnish Firms ,” Economica, 91(364), pp.1454-1481. With Y. Pan.
Nilsson Hakkala, Katariina. 2018. “Multinationals, Competition and Productivity Spillovers through Worker Mobility,” Review of World Economics, 154(2), pp 401–426. With A. Sembenelli.
Nilsson Hakkala, Katariina. 2014. “Multinational Firms and Job Tasks,” European Economic Review, 66, pp. 248–265. With F. Heyman, F, and F. Sjöholm.
Nilsson Hakkala, Katariina. 2012. “Should Countries Block Foreign Takeovers of R&D Champions and Promote Greenfield Entry?” Canadian Journal of Economics, 45( 3). August 2012. With O. Bertrand O, P.-J. Norbäck and L. Persson.
Nilsson Hakkala, Katariina. 2010. “Cross-Border Acquisitions, Multinationals and Wage Elasticities,” Review of World Economics, 146, pp. 263-280. With F. Heyman, F, and F. Sjöholm.
Nilsson Hakkala, Katariina. 2008. “Asymmetric Effects of Corruption on FDI: Evidence from Swedish Firms,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 90 (4), pp. 627-642. With P.-J. Norbäck and H. Svaleryd.
Hakkala, Katariina. 2007. “Location of R&D and High-Tech Production by Vertically Integrated Multinationals,” Economic Journal, 117, pp. 512-43. With K. Ekholm
Hakkala, Katariina. 2006. “Corporate Restructuring and Labor Productivity Growth,” Industrial and Corporate Change, 15( 4), pp. 683-714.
Recent Working Papers
Nilsson Hakkala, K. 2026. ”Zombies, Insolvency Reform and Capital Misallocation” forthcoming ADB Working Paper, May. With A. Kumar.
Nilsson Hakkala, K. 2026. ”The Role of Special Economic Zones in Shaping Viet Nam's Local Business Environment” forthcoming ADB Working Paper, June.
Nilsson Hakkala, K. 2025. "What Explains the Success of Emerging Asia's Service Exporters?" ADB Working Paper no 806. With Andrea Ariu.
.Ongoing research
Cross-Border Investment and Digital Technology Adoption: Firm-level Evidence from Korea (with Rolando Avendano, Sang Hyun Park, Jennifer P, Poole and Amelia U. Santos-Paulino)
Global Value Chain Participation in Emerging Asia. Evidence from Firm-Level Data (with Neil Forster-McGregor)
The Business Climate, Economic Complexity and Performance at the Provincial Level (with Ari Kokko and Nguyen Tien Thong)
A Descriptive Analysis of Firm-level Development in Vietnam between 2000 and 2020 (with Ari Kokko and Nguyen Tien Thong)
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