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Classical Corporation Tax as a Global Means of Tax Harmonization
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2002-02-19)
Classical corporation tax entails double taxation of corporate income. The alternative practice of imputing corporation tax to the domestic recipients of dividends is shown, in the case of a company with international ...
Trade Preferences in the EU Sugar Sector: Winners and Losers
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2005-01-25)
The ongoing trade negotiations, unilateral trade concessions and obligations under the WTO are pushing the EU sugar regime to undertake reforms. These reforms will alter the positions of developing countries in the global ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Impacts of WTO Export Subsidy Abolition on the Agri-food Industry in the EU: A Preliminary Assessment
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2005-12-08)
As a part of agricultural negotiations, the WTO members have agreed to phase out all forms of export subsidies. This study evaluates the current level and commitments of subsidised export quantities and subsidy expenditures ...
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 ...
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 ...