Selaus nimekkeen mukaan kokoelmassa VATT Discussion Papers (1990-2008)
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The Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Finland
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
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
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 75 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1994) -
Standardization in Transportation Markets: A European Perspective
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
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
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 83 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1995) -
Structural Unemployment in Finland
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
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 ... -
Tagging and Taxing: The Optimal Use of Categorial and Income Information in Designing Tax / Transfer Schemes
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 128 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1996)It is widely recognised that optimal tax/transfer schemes will generally involve elements of both 'tagging' (the use of categorical benefits) and 'means-testing' (Income-relation of benefits). This paper explores the optimal ... -
Tax Incidence and Optimal Forest Taxation under Stochastic Demand
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 99 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1995)Paperissa tarkastellaan metsäverotuksen kohtaantoa ja yhteiskunnan kannalta optimaalista metsäverotusta, kun raakapuumarkkinoilla vallitsee puhdas kilpailu ja puun tulevaan kysyntään liittyy epävarmuutta, mistä johtuen ... -
Tax Progression and Structure of Labour Taxation in an Open Economy General Equilibrium Model with Monopoly Unions
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 80 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1995) -
Tax Progressivity and Recent Evolution of the Finnish Income Inequality
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 460 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 17.12.2008)After the Economic Crisis in early 1990s the Finnish economy has recovered rapidly, and simultaneously a major period of equalization from the mid 1970s to the mid 1990s has been reversed, taking the levels of the Gini ... -
Tax Treatment of Dividends and Capital Gains and the Dividend Decision Under Dual Income Tax
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 416 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 05.04.2007)The paper analyses efficiency aspects of a dual income tax system with a higher tax on capital gains than dividends. It argues that apart from the distortions to investments claimed in earlier literature, the system puts ... -
Taxation and Debt Financing of Home Acquisition: Evidence from the Finnish 1993 Tax Reform
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 366 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 06.04.2005)The 1993 Finnish tax reform reduced the incentives to use debt financing in home acquisition for high-income households. Before the reform mortgage interest was deductible according to a progressive schedule creating a ... -
Taxes, Growth and Unemployment in the OECD Countries - Does Collective Bargaininig Matter?
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 235 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 19.12.2000)This paper analyses how collective bargaining affects the level and structure of labour and capital taxes in OECD countries by using cross-country-time-series data. Corporatist countries are found to have higher effective ... -
Technical Change, Efficiency, Firm Size and Age in an RD Intensive Sector
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 390 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 04.05.2006)The relationship between firm size and age relative to technical change and efficiency is examined in a highly innovative and dynamic sector, the Finnish ICT equipment manufacturing industry. A stochastic frontier model ... -
Technical Efficiency in an RD Intensive Industry: Finnish ICT Manufacturing
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 389 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 04.05.2006)Technical efficiency levels in Finnish ICT manufacturing are established by applying a stochastic frontier model and retrieving Method of Moments and Battese-Coelli efficiency measures to identify both permanent and ... -
Testing a Flood Protection Case by Means of a Group Decision Support System
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 449 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 02.09.2008)The report discusses an experimental decision-making simulation session applied to a flood protection case study against the backdrop of flood risks reinforced by climate change. A diverse set of interest groups was ... -
Testing Nonlinear Dynamics, Long Memory and Chaotic Behaviour with Financial and Nonfinancial Data
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 147 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1997)This paper contains a set of tests for nonlinearities in economic time series. The tests comprise both standard diagnostic tests for revealing nonlinearities and some new developments in modelling nonlinearities. The latter ... -
Testing the "Natural Rate of Suicide" Hypothesis
VATT-keskustelualoitteita : 185 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1998)This paper analyses the economic determinants of suicide. More specifically, we test the hypothesis that suicide is related to shocks or news concerning income growth. Testing is based on an error correction model of suicide ...