This paper develops a model of the relationship between public sector employment, total output and aggregate real demand in market prices, where public employment has a positive productivity effect on private output and ...

This paper analyses the productivity of public expenditures. It follows the branch of literature originated by Aschauer but has also some novel features. First of all, it focuses on the effect of both public investment and ...

Tutkimuksessa selvitetään, miten arvonlisävero vaikuttaa kuluttajahintoihin. Tarkastelun kohteena ovat Euroopan unionin jäsenmaat ja tarkasteluajanjakso on 1970–2004. Taustalla on tavanomainen verojen kohtaanto-ongelman ...

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 ...

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 ...

This paper deals with fiscal policy coordination. In particular, it focuses on the question of how fiscal policy can be coordinated inside EMU, where countries still differ considerably in terms of cyclical behaviour and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maakohtaiset erot julkisen talouden ongelmien ovat huomattavan suuria, eikä mitään selvää yhteistä mallia ongelmien synnyn ja ratkaisun suhteen tunnu olevan. Joka tapauksessa yhteisiä tekijöitä ovat mm. talouksien ...

Verojen ja tulonsiirtojen yhteensovittaminen Pohjoismaissa: Tässä yhteenvetoraportissa tarkastellaan niitä ongelmia, joita Pohjoismassa on syntynyt verotuksen, tulonsiirtojen ja tulosidonnaisten maksujen yhteisvaikutuksen ...