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 …

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 …

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 …

The paper contrasts Lipset’s modernization hypothesis and Przeworski- Limongi hypothesis that entries into democracy … are random with respect to income. We use data on income and democracy going back to 1820, multiple definitions of … democracy, and non-parametric testing focusing on the distribution of entrants’ incomes. We find that income matters for entry …

This paper proposes a “before-and-after” approach to empirical examination of the relationship between democracy and … evidence indicates that an improvement in growth performance typically follows the transformation to democracy. Moreover …, growth under democracy appears to be more stable than under authoritarian regimes. Interestingly, wealthy countries often …