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On Economic Poverty in Finland in the 1990s
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2002-01-08)
We have examined recent trends in the poverty in Finland using two data sources, the Household Budget Survey (HBS) and the Income Distribution statistics (IDS). We have drawn on the recent literature on poverty analysis ...
Regional and institutional influences on the determinants of long-term economic growth in the OECD.
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 1996-01-01)
This paper examines regional and institutional influences on the determinants of long-term economic growth in the OECD. We construct a growth equation based on the new growth model of Barro with a catch-up variable, total ...
Regional Income Differences in Finland, 1966-96
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 1998-01-01)
Household Survey data is used to study income differences between and within regions in Finland during 1966-1996. We have five major (NUTS2) regions and apply four income concepts: factor income, gross income, disposable ...
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 ...
Interest Rate Forecasting with Neural Networks
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 1998-01-01)
This paper compares neural networks and linear regression models in interest rate forecasting using US term structure data. The expectations hypothesis gets some extra support from the neural network model as compared to ...
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 ...
Yet Another Fiscal Indicator
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2000-01-19)
The paper presents a fiscal indicator that uses the fiscal situation of the previous year as a benchmark. Different revenue and expenditure items have their own of rules by which the cyclical and discretionary changes are ...
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 ...
Bank Mergers, Interest Rates and the Fragility of Loan Markets
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 1996-01-01)
We model the interaction between the concentration of the banking sector and the investment strategies of imperfectly competitive firms in the product market to address the question of whether competition makes loan markets ...
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 ...