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Eastern Enlargement of the European Union - Transition in applicant countries and evaluation of the economic prospects with a dynamic CGE-model
VATT-tutkimuksia : 64 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 20.06.2000)In this study the economic implications of eastward enlargement are analyzed using a multi-regional, dynamic general equilibrium model. EU's eastern enlargement is, in one respect, conventional regional integration where ... -
Economic and Equity Effects of Marginal Cost Pricing in Transport
VATT-tutkimuksia : 71 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 31.12.2000)Marginal cost transport pricing - if implemented in European cities - may give rise to substantial welfare benefits for the urban populations. Depending on the local conditions and on the policy instruments used, annual ... -
Economic Incentives and Labour Market Transitions of the Aged Finnish Workforce
VATT-tutkimuksia : 89 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 20.06.2002)This PhD thesis is a collection of studies on retirement in Finland. The main purpose is to assess labour market transitions of the aged and focus on the e.ect of the economic incentives. All of the studies are empirical ... -
The Effectiveness of Differentiation of the Finnish Car Purchase Tax according to Carbon Dioxide Emission Performance
VATT Research Reports : 168 (VATT Institute for Economic Research, 06.03.2012)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 ... -
The effects of energy taxes on energy consumption in Finland between 1995 and 2004 - An historical analysis using the VATTAGE-model
VATT Research Reports : 162 (VATT Institute for Economic Research, 31.01.2011)This study evaluates the effects of changes in energy taxes on energy consumption between the years 1995 and 2004 using an applied, general equilibrium model for a historical simulation. During this period, Finnish energy ... -
The Effects of European Integration on the Finnish Labour Market
VATT-tutkimuksia : 2 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1991) -
Efficiency and Productivity in Finnish Comprehensive Schooling 1998-2004
VATT-tutkimuksia : 127 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 20.12.2006)This study measures efficiency differences and productivity changes of Finnish municipalities providing comprehensive school education during 1998-2004 by estimating both production and cost functions. The average inefficiency ... -
Encouragement and discouragement. Essays on taxation and government expenditure
VATT Publications : P57 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 11.02.2011)This thesis consists of an introduction to a topic of optimal use of taxes and government expenditure and three chapters analyzing these themes more in depth. Chapter 2 analyses to what extent a given amount of subsidies ... -
Endogenous Monetary Policy in Macroeconomic Models: The Role of Commitment, Conservative Central Banker and Optimal Central Bank Contracts in the Credibility of Monetary Policy
VATT-tutkimuksia : 36 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1996)This study focuses on the motives and constraints of the monetary policy authorities, i.e. the central banks. The fundamental theme is that the policy variable (inflation) is endogenous in the analysis. The behavior of ... -
Essays on auction mechanisms and information in regulating pollution
VATT Publications : P66 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 15.04.2014)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 ... -
Essays on behavioral responses to income taxes
VATT Publications : P68 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 03.12.2014)This dissertation consists of an introductory chapter and four empirical essays on behavioral responses to income tax incentives. The introductory chapter presents the conceptual background of the welfare analysis of income ... -
Essays on Finnish Municipal Finance and Intergovernmental Grants
VATT-tutkimuksia : 93 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 08.11.2002)This PhD thesis is a collection of studies on Finnish municipal expenditures, revenues and intergovernmental grants. The main purpose of the study was to analyse the municipal expenditure variation between the matching ... -
Essays on globalization - Policies in trade, development, resources and climate change
VATT Publications : P50 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 26.03.2009)This research study on globalization consists of an introduction on the methodology applied, a summary and four independent essays focussing on applied policy research in international trade. The study follows the CGE ... -
Essays on income inequality, poverty and the evolution of top income shares
VATT Publications : P52 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 22.05.2009)This dissertation on income inequality in Finland consists of an introduction and four self-contained essays on trends in the share of top incomes, economic poverty, regional income inequality and tax progressivity. In all ... -
Essays on International Trade and Tax Policy in Vertically Related Markets
VATT-tutkimuksia : 18 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1994) -
Essays on labour demand and wage formation
VATT Publications : P60 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.02.2012)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 ... -
Essays on Labour Taxation and Unemployment Insurance
VATT-tutkimuksia : 111 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 20.07.2004)The study consists of four essays, which analyse the implications of labour taxation and unemployment insurance (UI) in the models of imperfectly competitive labour markets. The first essay studies the effects of labour ... -
Essays on migration
VATT Publications : P51 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 12.03.2009)This dissertation consists of four empirical essays and an introductory chapter on the economics of migration. The first two essays study the long- term effects of relocating 11% of the Finnish population after the World ... -
Essays on public economics
VATT Publications : P72 (VATT Institute for Economic Research and Aalto University, 04.06.2018)This doctoral thesis is a collection of four essays in public economics that look at various public policies and their impacts on low-income and otherwise vulnerable individuals. The essays share the general aim of studying ... -
Essays on taxation – Evidence from tax reforms
VATT Publications : P64 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 27.11.2013)This dissertation consists an introductory chapter and four empirical essays on the taxation of firms and individuals. The first essay concentrates on how the Finnish tax reform of 2005 affected voluntary pension plan ...