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Redistribution and Risk Sharing in EMU
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 1998-01-01)
This study analyses possibilities for independent national redistribution and risk sharing policy in EMU by reviewing literature on fiscal federalism. The currency union will not directly affect the national welfare policy. ...
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 ...
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 ...
On Optimal Non-Linear Taxation and Public Good Provision in Overlapping Generations Economy
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 1999-01-01)
Using the self-selection approach to tax analysis within an OLG framework, the paper examines optimal non-linear labour and capital income taxation and the provision of a durable public good. Under endogenous wages, the ...
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 ...
Does Centralised Wage Setting Lead into Higher Taxation?
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2003-10-22)
This paper studies implications of centralised wage setting for the level of taxation and public expenditure in an analytical model with unionised labour markets. We extend the previous studies by allowing for both demand ...
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 ...
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 ...
Labour Taxation and the Degree of Centralisation in a Trade Union Model with Endogenous Labour Supply
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2001-03-30)
This paper considers the effect of labour taxation on wages and employment in a trade union model with endogenous working hours. In the model, individuals choose working hours with a given wage rate, competitive firms ...