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Social Capital and Economic Growth Revisited
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-06-09)
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 ...
Finland's First 10 Years in the European Union - Economic Consequences
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2006-01-13)
This paper summarizes the economic performance of Finland in 1995–2004 and compares the actual developments to the projections made prior to the EU membership. The paper also assesses the impacts of the structural changes ...
Gerontocracy Revisited: Unilateral Transfer to the Young May Benefit the Middle-aged
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2002-05-22)
According to conventional wisdom, intergenerational transfers can survive, in the absence of altruism, only if the old are net recipients. I prove that this need not hold in an overlapping generations model with a fixed ...
Who Gains from Credited Forest Carbon Sinks: Finland and other Annex I Countries in Comparison
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-01-15)
In the Kyoto Protocol carbon sinks became a tool for releasing the economic burden of achieving the emission target. For Finland, credits from carbon sinks might be important since the amount of carbon sequestered in total ...
The Evolution of the Finnish Model in the 1990s: from Depression to High-tech Boom
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2004-12-15)
Finland has recently got much admiration due to economic success reflected in rankings of competitiveness, technology, education and economic growth. This success has largely been embodied in the growth of Nokia group and ...
Impact of Business Subsidies on Growth of Firms - Preliminary Evidence from Finnish Panel Data
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2000-06-14)
This study examines the impact of business subsidies on beneficiary and non-beneficiary firms during a short three year period, from 1995 to 1997. The indicator measuring the impact of subsidies on these firms is their ...
Durable Goods and Household Saving Ratios in the Euro Area
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2006-12-29)
The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of capitalising durable goods on the Euro area (EA) countries' and the EA-aggregate's household saving ratios and disposable incomes. The reason for this exercise is ...
Innovation Performance of Firms in Manufacturing Industry: Evidence from Belgium, Finland and Germany in 1998-2000
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2007-02-14)
The objective of this study is to study whether the R&D expenditures in Finnish firms generate better innovation output than in Belgian and German firms following the studies of Mohnen et al. (2006) and Mohnen and Dagenais ...
Taxes, Growth and Unemployment in the OECD Countries - Does Collective Bargaininig Matter?
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2000-12-19)
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 ...
Are Government Expenditures Productive? Measuring the Effect on Private Sector Production
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2006-03-03)
This paper analyses the productivity of public expenditures. It follows the branch of literature originated by Aschauer but has also some novel features. First of all, it focuses on the effect of both public investment and ...