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The Effectiveness of Differentiation of the Finnish Car Purchase Tax according to Carbon Dioxide Emission Performance
(VATT Institute for Economic Research, 2012-03-06)
The study concerns an assessment of the effectiveness of car purchase tax differentiation according to the CO2-emission performance of newly sold cars as implemented in Finland. This policy instrument came into force as ...
Essays on work and fertility
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2015-02-04)
This dissertation consists of four empirical essays all related to children and parents' labor supply, earnings and income in Finland. In the essays the problem of unobserved heterogeneity has been attacked in various ways. ...
Essays on labour demand and wage formation
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2012-02-01)
The first essay in this thesis is on gender wage differentials among manufacturing sector white-collar workers. The wage differential is decomposed into firm, job (within-firm) and individual-level components. Job-level ...
Putting a Price on Carbon – Econometric Essays on the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme and its Impacts
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-03-20)
This dissertation examines the main instrument of the European Union climate policy, the emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) during its first years. Emission trading provides a cost-efficient way to reduce emissions. It ...
Essays on auction mechanisms and information in regulating pollution
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2014-04-15)
Environmental regulation often has to be designed using asymmetric and incomplete information. Polluting firms, for instance, are normally privately better informed than the regulator with regard to the costs of reducing ...
The implications of climate change for extreme weather events and their socio-economic consequences in Finland
(VATT Institute for Economic Research, 2010-07-07)
This publication reports on the main findings of the entire TOLERATE project, which was an integrated natural science – social science project for the assessment of climate changed induced changes of extreme weather events ...