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465: A Distributional Analysis of Displacement Costs in an Economic Depression and Recovery

Tomi Kyyrä and Ossi Korkeamäki

464: Optimal Public Procurement Contracts Under a Soft Budget Constraint

Ville Mälkönen

460: Tax Progressivity and Recent Evolution of the Finnish Income Inequality

Risto Sullström, Marja Riihelä and Ilpo Suoniemi

459: Should RD Champions be Protected from Foreign Takeovers?

Katariina Nilsson Hakkala, Olivier Bertrand, Pehr-Johan Norbäck and Lars Persson

458: Housing Allowance and the Rent of Low-income Households

Aki Kangasharju

454: Assimilation to a Welfare State: Labor Market Performance and Use of Social Benefits by Immigrants to Finland

Matti Sarvimäki

453: Employment Policies in Two Ageing Societies: Japan and Finland Compared

Heikki Räisänen and Haruhiko Hori

450: Understanding Efficiency Differences of Schools: Practitioners' Views on Students, Staff Relations, School Management and the Curriculum

Tanja Kirjavainen

449: Testing a Flood Protection Case by Means of a Group Decision Support System

Adriaan Perrels, Riitta Molarius, Markus Porthin and Tony Rosqvist

448: A Publication Activity Model for Finnish Universities

Tarmo Räty and Micke Bondas

447: Anticipating Tax Changes: Evidence from the Finnish Corporate Income Tax Reform of 2005

Seppo Kari, Hanna Karikallio and Jukka Pirttilä

446: Imputed Rental Income, Taxation and Income Distribution in Finland

Tuukka Saarimaa

444: Is There an Election Cycle in Public Employment? Separating Time Effects from Election Year Effects

Matz Dahlberg and Eva Mörk

443: Employment and Wage Effects of a Payroll-Tax Cut-Evidence from a Regional Experiment

Ossi Korkeamäki and Roope Uusitalo

440: Partial Unemployment Insurance Benefits and the Transition Rate to Regular Work

Tomi Kyyrä

438: Varying Biases in the Matching Estimates: Evidence from Two Randomized Job Search Training Experiments

Kari Hämäläinen, Roope Uusitalo and Jukka Vuori

435: Revealing Agglomeration Economies with Stochastic Frontier Modelling in the Finnish ICT Industry

Pii Berghäll

432: Vocational Labour Market Training in Promoting Youth Employment

Juha Tuomala and Kari Hämäläinen

429: Determinants of Health Care Expenditures in Finnish Hospital Districts 1993-2005

Juho Aaltonen

428: Efficiency of Finnish Upper Secondary Schools: An Application of Stochastic Frontier Analysis with Panel Data

Tanja Kirjavainen

426: Anticipating Tax Changes: Evidence from the Finnish Corporate Income Tax Reform of 2005 (Updated version VATT Discussion papers 447)

Seppo Kari, Hanna Karikallio and Jukka Pirttilä

425: Secessions of Municipal Health Centre Federations: Expenditure and Productivity Effects

Kalevi Luoma, Antti Moisio and Juho Aaltonen

422: Wage and Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers in Finland

Jukka Appelqvist

421: The Increased Revenue from Finnish Corporate Income Tax in the 1990s

Tuomas Kosonen

419: The Effect of Three-rate Property Taxation on Housing Construction

Teemu Lyytikäinen

418: Economic Poverty in Finland 1971-2004

Risto Sullström, Marja Riihelä and Matti Tuomala

416: Tax Treatment of Dividends and Capital Gains and the Dividend Decision Under Dual Income Tax

Seppo Kari and Hanna Karikallio

415: Nordic Dual Income Taxation of Entrepreneurs

Seppo Kari, Vesa Kanniainen and Jouko Ylä-Liedenpohja

414: Innovation Performance of Firms in Manufacturing Industry: Evidence from Belgium, Finland and Germany in 1998-2000

Elina Seppä

412: Economic Implications of Differences in Member State Regulations for the European Union Emission Trade System

Adriaan Perrels

410: Turkish EU Membership: A Simulation Study on Economic Effects

Pekka Sulamaa and Mika Widgrén

409: Durable Goods and Household Saving Ratios in the Euro Area

Jukka Jalava and Ilja Kristian Kavonius

407: Employment Effects of a Payroll-Tax Cut: Evidence from a Regional Tax Exemption Experiment

Ossi Korkeamäki and Roope Uusitalo

406: The Micro-Level Dynamics of Declining Labour Share: Lessons from the Finnish Great Leap

Tomi Kyyrä and Mika Maliranta

405: Impacts of the European Emission Trade System on Finnish Wholesale Electricity Prices

Adriaan Perrels, Juha Honkatukia and Ville Mälkönen

404: Guide to FUSSEP (Finnish University Students Socio-Economic Preferences) 2005 round

Takis Venetoklis

402: Fiscal Policy in the 1920s and 1930s. How much different it is from the post war period's policies

Matti Virén

399: Impact of Alternative Benefit Levels and Parental Choices on the Parent's Income

Anita Haataja and Päivi Mattila-Wiro

396: Reduction in the Long-Term Unemployment of the Elderly: A Success Story from Finland Revised

Tomi Kyyrä and Ralf Wilke

392: Investment Incentives in Closely Held Corporations and Finland's 2005 Tax Reform

Seppo Kari and Harri Hietala

391: Unemployment and Subjective Well-being: Does Money Make a Difference

Takis Venetoklis and Heikki Ervasti

390: Technical Change, Efficiency, Firm Size and Age in an RD Intensive Sector

Pii Berghäll

389: Technical Efficiency in an RD Intensive Industry: Finnish ICT Manufacturing

Pii Berghäll

388: RD and Productivity Growth in Finnish ICT Manufacturing

Pii Berghäll

385: Rent Control and Tenants' Welfare: The Effects of Deregulating Rental Markets in Finland

Teemu Lyytikäinen

384: Is Fiscal Policy Sustainable in Developing Economies?

Subrata Ghatak and José Sánchez-Fung

383: Regional Matching Frictions and Aggregate Unemployment

Aki Kangasharju, Sanna-Mari Hynninen and Jaakko Pehkonen

381: Are Government Expenditures Productive? Measuring the Effect on Private Sector Production

Jaakko Kiander, Reino Hjerppe and Matti Virén

379: Aspects of Globalization

Ronald Jones

378: Do Wages Subsidies Increase Employment in Subsidised Firms?

Aki Kangasharju