, agriculture is less labour intensive than both services and industry, but capital intensity is similar in the three sectors … roughly the same--0.3%--in agriculture and manufactures over the period 1971-91. …

candidate countries. It aims to describe the ICT manufacturing and software industry in Estonia and also throw light on how this …

Estonia has had a currency board arrangement (CBA) for more than 10 years. Due to the successful performance of the … Estonian economy under a CBA the current position of the Bank of Estonia is to maintain its exchange rate regime until full … participation in the EMU, inter alia, during Estonia’s participation in ERM 2. Therefore, it is necessary to analyse the reasons for …

Estonia is one of the most rapidly developing information societies in Central and Eastern Europe. Still, 61% of the … PRAXIS Center for Policy Studies from January to July 2002. The research was commissioned and financed by the Open Estonia … Foundation, the Look@World Foundation and the State Chancellery of the Republic of Estonia. It was co-financed by the …

This paper analyses the long-run effects of Estonia’s 2000 Income Tax Act with a dynamic general equilibrium model …

the view that efficiency considerations drive ownership changes (while earlier analysis for Estonia and for many other …

The monetary system in Estonia is based on the currency board arrangement with German Mark. The strong commitments and … rule-based features of currency board imply that there is no active monetary policy in Estonia – all necessarily monetary …