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Public provision, commodity demand and hours of work : an empirical analysis
Pirttilä, Jukka; Suoniemi, Ilpo - 2010
taxation. This paper examines the empirical validity of this claim using consumption data from Finland. The data have extensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951573
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The welfare effects of health-based food tax policy
Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Härkänen, Tommi; Pietinen, Pirjoq; … - 2011
and health outcomes. Unlike earlier work, we also take into account the uncertainty related to both demand estimation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009375064
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Returns to office in national and local politics
Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu; Terviö, Marko - 2013
We study the returns to political office using data from Finnish parliamentary elections in 1970-2007 and municipal elections in 1996-2008. The discontinuity of electoral outcomes in individual candidate votes allows us to estimate the causal effect of being elected on subsequent income. Getting...
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Anticipating tax changes : evidence from the Finnish corporate income tax reform of 2005
Kari, Seppo (contributor); Karikallio, Hanna (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003630778
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Persistence in youth unemployment
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2012
, Portugal, Ireland and Finland, where appropriate policy actions are of the essence. Specifically, active labour market policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009630623
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Pricing for a cooler planet : an empirical analysis of the effect of taxing carbon
Mideksa, Torben K. - 2021
Finland introduced the planet’s first carbon tax in 1990 to experiment with, to most economists, the best policy to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597096
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Migration and tax policy : evidence from Finnish full-population data
Kalin, Salla; Kauppinen, Ilpo; Kotakorpi, Kaisa; … - 2024
taxation on the migration decisions of the entire working population in a high-tax source country, Finland. We find that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014556627
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An alternative conditional asymmetry specification for stock returns
Brännäs, Kurt; Nordman, Niklas - 2001
The paper advances the log-generalized gamma distribution as a suitable generator of conditional skewness. Based on the NYSE composite daily returns an asMA-asQGARCH model along with skewness dynamics is estimated. The results indicate a skewness that varies between sizeable negative skewness...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398115
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On the influence of oil prices on stock markets : evidence from panel analysis in GCC countries
Arouri, Mohamed; Rault, Christophe - 2009
This paper implements recent bootstrap panel cointegration techniques and Seemingly Unrelated regression (SUR) methods to investigate the existence of a long-run relationship between oil prices and Gulf Corporation Countries (GCC) stock markets. Since GCC countries are major world energy market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003854428
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Oil prices and stock markets : what drives what in the gulf corporation council countries?
Arouri, Mohamed; Rault, Christophe - 2010
In the empirical literature, only few studies have focused on the relationship between oil prices and stock markets in net oil-importing countries. In net oil-exporting countries this relationship has not been widely researched. This paper implements the panel-data approach of Kónya (2006),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937088