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Public Employees as Politicians: Evidence from Close Elections
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2016-09-27)
We analyze the effect of municipal employees' political representation in municipal councils on local public spending. To quantify the effect, we use within-party, as-good-as random variation in close elections in the ...
Seat competitiveness and redistricting: Evidence from voting on municipal mergers
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-03-24)
We analyze how (anticipated) changes in the competitiveness of the seats of municipal councilors affect their voting behavior over municipal mergers. The competitiveness of the seats changes because the merger changes the ...
Yhteishankintojen kustannusvaikuttavuus
(Valtioneuvoston kanslia, 2023-04-25)
Arvioimme yhteishankintojen kustannusvaikuttavuutta Suomessa havaintoaineistojen ja haastattelujen avulla. Yhteishankintojen standardoidut hinnat ovat hieman alhaisemmat kuin itsenäisissä hankinnoissa, mutta erot ovat melko ...
Yhteishankinnat luovat mahdollisuuksia kustannussäästöille
(Valtioneuvoston kanslia, 2023-04-25)
Suomessa tehdään kilpailluilta markkinoilta julkisia hankintoja yli 30 miljardilla eurolla joka vuosi. Aiempi tutkimus osoittaa, että julkisia hankintoja vaivaa kilpailun vähyys. Kun tarjoajia on vähän, kilpailua ei synny, ...
Public Employees as Politicians: Evidence from Close Elections
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)
We analyze the effect of municipal employees’ political representation in municipal councils on local public spending. We use within-party, as-good-as-random variation in close elections in the Finnish open-list proportional ...
When does Regression Discontinuity Design Work? Evidence from Random Election Outcomes
(Econometric Society, 2018)
We use elections data in which a large number of ties in vote counts between candidates are resolved via a lottery to study the personal incumbency advantage. We benchmark non-experimental RDD estimates against the estimate ...
Does Regression Discontinuity Design Work? Evidence from Random Election Outcomes
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2015-09-21)
We use elections data in which a large number of ties in vote counts between
candidates are resolved via lottery. We benchmark non-experimental RDD estimates
of personal incumbency advantage against the estimate produced ...