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PARAS tapa velkaantua? Kuntaliitokset ja vapaamatkustaminen*
(Taloustieteellinen yhdistys, 2013-10-09)
Valtioneuvosto käynnisti keväällä 2005 niin sanotun PARAS-hankkeen kunta- ja palvelurakenteen uudistamiseksi. Hanketta ohjaava puitelaki tuli voimaan vuoden 2007 helmikuussa ja oli voimassa vuoden 2012 loppuun. Hankkeen ...
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 ...
Local Representation and Strategic Voting: Evidence from Electoral Boundary Reforms
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2015-09-11)
We analyze whether voters value local political representation by exploiting municipal mergers, which increase the number of candidates available to voters and intensify political competition. In the Finnish open-list ...
Effects of minimum bid increment in internet auctions: Evidence from a field experiment
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-02-15)
I study the role of minimum bid increments (MBI) in internet auctions using natural field experiment
data from a Finnish online auction site Huuto.net. Internet auctions are typically viewed as secondprice,
implying truthful ...
Are Voters Rational?
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-09-27)
We test whether voters are rational in the sense that their decision to cast a vote depends on its expected impact on the election outcomes. We provide causal evidence on this rational voting hypothesis by using exogenous ...
Effects of Minimum Bid Increments in Internet Auctions: Evidence from a Field Experiment
(Wiley, 2017)
I study the role of minimum bid increments (MBI) in internet auctions using natural field experiment data from a Finnish online auction site Huuto.net. Internet auctions are typically viewed as second-price, implying ...
Electoral Institutions and Intraparty Cohesion
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2018-07-12)
We study parties' optimal ideological cohesion across electoral rules, when the following trade-off is present: A more heterogenous set of candidates is electorally appealing (catch-all party), yet, it serves policy-related ...
PARAS-hankkeen aikana toteutettujen kuntaliitosten vaikutukset
(Taloustieteellinen yhdistys, 2018-06-05)
Matti Vanhasen hallitus käynnisti keväällä 2006 PARAS-hankkeena tunnetun kunta- ja palvelurakenteen uudistuksen. Hankkeen tavoitteena oli luoda kuntapalvelujen järjestämiselle ja tuottamiselle vahva taloudellinen perusta. ...
Effects of municipal mergers on voter turnout
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
We study the effects of municipal mergers on voter turnout in a difference-in-differences framework, using data from a wave of municipal mergers in Finland in 2009. Analysing two pre-merger elections and three post-merger ...