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candidate countries. It aims to describe the ICT manufacturing and software industry in Estonia and also throw light on how this …
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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 …
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This paper analyses the long-run effects of Estonia’s 2000 Income Tax Act with a dynamic general equilibrium model …
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the view that efficiency considerations drive ownership changes (while earlier analysis for Estonia and for many other …
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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 …
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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 …
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We examine the extent, causes and consequences of transition countries’ use of foreign currency as a co-circulating medium of exchange and store of value. Using new estimates of foreign cash in circulation, we obtain unique measures of currency substitution, asset substitution, and...
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This paper examines the available evidence on the size the UK’s underground (unobserved) economy and presents preliminary evidence on the size and growth of the unobserved economy for the period 1960-1980 based on Feige’s transaction approach. Reference: Journal of Economic Affairs, Vol.1...
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The aim of this paper is twofold. First, new annual data on Italian irregular sector for the period 1980-1991 are reconstructed. These data are compatible with the available 1992-2001 official data. Second, based on this self-consistent “long” sample a time series analysis of the two sides...
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An easy and popular method for measuring the size of the underground economy is to use macro-data such as money demand or electricity demand to infer what the legitimate economy needs, and then to attribute the remaining consumption to the underground economy. Such inferences rely on the...
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