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    • Endogenous Monetary Policy in Macroeconomic Models: The Role of Commitment, Conservative Central Banker and Optimal Central Bank Contracts in the Credibility of Monetary Policy 

      Alajääskö, Pekka
      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 

      Ollikka, Kimmo
      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 

      Matikka, Tuomas
      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 

      Moisio, Antti
      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 

      Kerkelä, Leena
      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 

      Riihelä, Marja
      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 

      Holm, Pasi
      VATT-tutkimuksia : 18 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1994)

    • Essays on labour demand and wage formation 

      Korkeamäki, Ossi
      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 

      Sinko, Pekka
      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 

      Sarvimäki, Matti
      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 

      Paukkeri, Tuuli
      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 

      Harju, Jarkko
      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 ...

    • Essays on the efficiency of schools and student achievement 

      Kirjavainen, Tanja
      VATT Publications : P53 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 17.08.2009)
      This thesis consists of five essays that investigate the efficiency differences of schools, explain the differences in efficiency and student achievement and take a further step by looking inside schools with differing ...

    • Essays on Timber Supply and Forest Taxation 

      Ollikainen, Markku
      VATT-tutkimuksia : 33 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1996)
      By using the two-period model, this study analyzes the effects of forest taxation on the short-term timber supply of nonindustrial private forest owners. The study consists of three separate articles and a note that have ...

    • Essays on work and fertility 

      Kellokumpu, Jenni
      VATT Publications : P69 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 04.02.2015)
      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. ...

    • Estonia and Finland - A Retrospective Socioenonomic Comparison 

      Lugus, Olev; Vartia, Pentti
      VATT-tutkimuksia : 15 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1993)

    • An Evaluation of Wage Subsidy Programs to SMEs Utilising Propensity Score Matching 

      Venetoklis, Takis
      VATT-tutkimuksia : 106 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 05.02.2004)
      We evaluate direct wage subsidy programs to Finnish SMEs utilising as the unit of interest the firm and its characteristics. In estimating Average Treatment effects on the Treated firms (ATT) we apply recent techniques of ...

    • Expertise in the Future Use of Generic Technologies 

      Kuusi, Osmo
      VATT-tutkimuksia : 59 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1999)
      In 1990s there has been a "boom" of extensive technology foresight studies based on the use of the Delphi method. This study examines critically e.g. national foresight studies made in Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom ...

    • The Factors Affecting the Use of Elderly Care and the Need for Resources by 2030 in Finland 

      Luoma, Kalevi; Räty, Tarmo; Mäkinen, Erkki; Vaarama, Marja
      VATT-tutkimuksia : 99 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 18.06.2003)
      A nation-wide interview survey data is used to analyse by means of ordered logit models the impacts of age, dependency and other factors on probabilities to use home and community care for the elderly. With these models ...

    • General Equilibrium Models - Numerical Method and Stability 

      Lappeteläinen, Antti
      VATT-tutkimuksia : 26 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.01.1995)
      Dynamic general equilibrium models are studied from a mathematical point of view. Study concentrates on conditions of optimality, stability and especially numerical solution algorithms. Models are also studied in respect ...