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A Game-Theoretic Approach to the Roundwood Market with Capital Stock Determination
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 1996-01-01)
The paper provides a framework to approach price and quantity determination in the roundwood market from a slightly new perspective. In the spirit of the trade union literature, a model of timber price determination is ...
Effects of Fiscal Policy on Private Consumption
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 1996-01-01)
This paper examines the effects of fiscal policy on private consumption. The paper evaluates the assumption that the effects of fiscal policy are dependent on the public sector's financial situation, which changes the ...
On Calculating Welfare Losses of Taxation and Public Provision on the margin and to a degree
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 1995-01-01)
In the paper an index number measuring inefficiency of taxation is introduced which is based on an economy-wide generalisation of the input distance function. Related concepts are an input based quantity index, the index ...
Testing the "Natural Rate of Suicide" Hypothesis
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 1998-01-01)
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 ...
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 ...
Employment Growth and Labour Market Flexibility in OECD Countries
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 1998-01-01)
This paper investigates the adjustment of employment to population shocks in 22 OECD countries over the period 1960 - 1997. Most of the countries have experienced significant population shocks during that period. The speed ...
OECD Forecasts for the G7 Countries in 1969 - 1997
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 1998-01-01)
This paper presents a review of OECD forecasts for the G7 countries for the period 1969 - 1997. The analysis deals with the magnitude,
auto-correlation and eventual bias of the errors. In addition, we scrutinize the cyclical ...
Social Capital and Economic Growth
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 1998-01-01)
It is argued in order to explain large differences in the level of the development and the growth of economies cannot be adequately explained only by looking the traditional inputs of labour, capital and natural resources. ...
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 ...
Tax Progressivity and Recent Evolution of the Finnish Income Inequality
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2008-12-17)
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 ...