Selaus nimekkeen mukaan kokoelmassa VATT Discussion Papers (1990-2008)

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    • Regional Matching Frictions and Aggregate Unemployment 

      Kangasharju, Aki; Hynninen, Sanna-Mari; Pehkonen, Jaakko
      VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 383 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 03.03.2006)
      This study demonstrates that a stochastic frontier approach applied to regional level data offers a convenient and interesting method to examine how regional differences in matching efficiency and structural factors ...

    • Regulation by Price or by Command 

      Göazer, Amihai
      VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 102 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1995)

    • Rent Control and Tenants' Welfare: The Effects of Deregulating Rental Markets in Finland 

      Lyytikäinen, Teemu
      VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 385 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 21.03.2006)
      Private rental markets in Finland were subject to rent control from 1967 until the beginning of the 1990s when the rent control system was gradually abolished. This study estimates the costs and benefits of rent control ...

    • Retirement Round-bout: Early Exit Channels and Disability Applications 

      Hakola, Tuulia; Lindeboom, Maarten
      VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 262 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 31.10.2001)
      Disability pension benefits are governed by an application-approval procedure. Therefore, explanatory variables can have different effects on the application probability and on the actual disability transition probability. ...

    • Revealing Agglomeration Economies with Stochastic Frontier Modelling in the Finnish ICT Industry 

      Berghäll, Elina
      VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 435 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 14.01.2008)
      Agglomeration economies are sought with stochastic frontier methodology to analyse their role in the extraordinary productivity growth of the knowledge-intensive information and communication technology (ICT) equipment ...

    • School Resources and Student Achievement Revisited: New Evidence Using Panel Data 

      Kirjavainen, Tanja; Häkkinen, Iida; Uusitalo, Roope
      VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 227 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 22.08.2000)
      In this study we analyse the effects of the changes in the school spending on the matriculation examination results. We use a large sample of Finnish senior secondary school students from the years 1990-1998. Teaching ...

    • School Resources and Student Achievement: Evidence from Finnish Senior Secondary Schools 

      Kirjavainen, Tanja; Loikkanen, Heikki A.
      VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 91 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1995)

    • Secessions of Municipal Health Centre Federations: Expenditure and Productivity Effects 

      Luoma, Kalevi; Moisio, Antti; Aaltonen, Juho
      VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 425 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 13.09.2007)
      We examine the expenditure and efficiency effects of secessions of health centre federations between 1990 and 2003. Using both regression and matching techniques we find statistically significant effects. According to ...

    • Should RD Champions be Protected from Foreign Takeovers? 

      Nilsson Hakkala, Katariina; Bertrand, Olivier; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars
      VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 459 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 07.11.2008)
      We analyze how the entry mode of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) affects affiliate R&D activities. Using unique affiliate level data for Swedish multinational firms, we first present empirical evidence that acquired ...

    • Social Capital and Economic Growth 

      Hjerppe, Reino
      VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 183 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1998)
      It is argued in order to explain large differences in the level of the development and the growth of economies cannot be adequately explained only by looking the traditional inputs of labour, capital and natural resources. ...

    • Social Capital and Economic Growth Revisited 

      Hjerppe, Reino
      VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 307 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 09.06.2003)
      Social capital facilitates cooperation in the society. High level of social capital promotes economic efficiency by lowering transaction costs. Trust towards strangers and low level of corruption are examples of high level ...

    • Social Security Funds, Payroll Tax Adjustment and Real Exchange Rate: The Finnish Model 

      Kiander, Jaakko; Holm, Pasi; Tossavainen, Pekka
      VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 198 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1999)
      This paper presents the Finnish system of EMU buffer funds. The idea of the buffer funds is to finance temporary reductions of payroll taxes in a case of asymmetric shock facing the economy. It is well-known that by ...

    • The Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Finland 

      Leppänen, Seppo
      VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 8 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1991)

    • Spend and Tax or Tax and Spend? Panel Data Evidence from Finnish Municipalities during 1985 - 1999 

      Moisio, Antti
      VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 242 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 31.12.2000)
      This paper studies the dynamic interrelationship between total expenditures, own source revenues, grants received from state and loans in Finnish municipalities. Two separate panel data sets that cover the years 1985-1992 ...

    • St. Petersburg - Manpower Prospects and Economic Potential 

      Eronen, Jarmo
      VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 75 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1994)

    • Standardization in Transportation Markets: A European Perspective 

      Holler ,Manfred J.; Knieps, Günter; Niskanen, Esko
      VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 151 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1997)
      The paper presents an overview of issues related to standardization in the European transportation market. The paper identifies current trends in the European transportation policy: deregulation in service markets, horizontal ...

    • Statistical Inference and Lorenz Curves: An empirical example using Finnish Income Data 

      Aura, Saku
      VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 130 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1996)
      The main theme of this paper is to study statistical inference concerning empirical Lorenz curves and its generalisations. These curves are useful devices for examining welfare and inequality. Asymptotical sampling properties ...

    • Strategic Trade Policy in a Two-Sector Duopoly Model with an Endogenous Union Structure 

      Holm, Pasi
      VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 83 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1995)

    • Structural Unemployment in Finland 

      Holm, Pasi; Somervuori, Elina
      VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 136 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1997)
      Since the Finnish unemployment rate has rocketed to a very high level in the beginning of the 1990?s it is worth to study to what extent the unemployment rate prevailing today is due to cyclical or to structural reasons. ...

    • Subsidizing vs. Experience Rating of Unemployment Insurance in Unionized Labor Markets 

      Sinko, Pekka
      VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 319 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 18.12.2003)
      Alternative ways to organize government subsidies to unemployment insurance (UI) are analyzed in a right-to-manage model where industry level unions run UI funds of their own. It is shown that equilibrium unemployment is ...