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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 ...
Do automatic stabilisers take care of asymmetric shocks in the euro area?
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2000-12-01)
This paper deals with the question whether the automatic fiscal stabilisers are strong enough to solve the problem of asymmetric shocks in the Euro area. The question is important for many reasons, for instance in terms ...
How Sensitive is the Public Budget Balance to Cyclical Fluctuations in the EU?
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2000-10-09)
This paper discusses the fiscal behaviour of EU countries in 1972-1999. It attempts to find out how deficits adjust to changes in interest rates and output growth by examining the hypothesis that the reaction of deficits ...
Government Size and Output Volatility: New International Evidence
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2004-07-08)
This paper re-examines the relationship between government size and output volatility from two perspectives. First, we use a wider international data set of 91 countries over the period 1980–1999 and thus not only the OECD ...
Uncovering the Dimensions of the Common Good - Problems of Measurement of the Size of the Public Sector
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-12-23)
There are problems in the measures of the size of the public sector both from the perspective of welfare state policies, monetary policy and the analysis of the economic role of public sector in general. In practice there ...
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 ...
Fiscal Policy in the 1920s and 1930s. How much different it is from the post war period's policies
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2006-11-08)
This paper deals with the fiscal behaviour of governments in the 1920s and 1930s. The intention is to see whether there were the same features in government behaviour as in the post-World War II era. In particular, attention ...
Growth and Employment in Nordic Welfare States in the 1990s: a Tale of Crisis and Revival
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2004-06-11)
This paper reviews the macroeconomic performance of the so called Nordic welfare states, especially in terms of growth and employment. In the post-war years the Nordic economies enjoyed rapid growth and full employment. ...