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Technical Efficiency in an RD Intensive Industry: Finnish ICT Manufacturing
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2006-05-04)
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 ...
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 ...
Access to Computer, Internet and Mobile Phone at Home in Finland, Ireland, Netherlands and Sweden
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2004-02-06)
The purpose of this study is to analyse statistically factors that affect individual access to and household ownership of new technology. This paper reviews the literature on the diffusion of new innovations, the use of ...
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 ...
Regional Economic Repercussions of an Economic Crisis: A Sectoral Analysis
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2001-03-12)
This paper investigates the evolution of regional disparities in Finland between 1988 and 1997. The analysis focuses on per capita GDP and its subcomponents, particularly labour productivity, jobs and population. The results ...
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 ...
EU-Enlargement and Beyond: A Simulation Study on EU and Russia Integration
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2004-12-16)
This paper examines the economic effects of the opening of the Russian Federation. The analysis carried out in the paper is two-fold. First we simulate the impact of the eastern enlargement of the EU and, second, we analyse ...
Aspects of Globalization
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2006-01-03)
The author deals with the costs and benefits of globalisation. He also gives a simple explanation of the core economic forces behind the globalisation. The current technical development favours the decline of the fixed ...