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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 ...
Common pool problems in voluntary municipal mergers
(Elsevier, 2015)
We analyze free-riding behavior of Finnish municipalities prior to voluntary municipal mergers. The merger process creates a temporary common pool problem, because of a delay from the initial decision to the actual merger ...
Do Urban Neighborhoods Benefit from Homeowners? Evidence from Housing Prices
(Wiley, 2015)
Homeownership is heavily subsidized in most countries. The adverse effects of this policy on economic efficiency and income distribution are well documented in the economics literature. The main argument in favor of ...
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 ...
Who Benefits from Public Housing?
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2015-12-17)
This paper studies how much public housing generates rent savings for the tenants, how these savings are distributed among the tenants, and whether the tenants reside in better quality neighborhoods than similar low-income ...
Hyvän valtionosuusjärjestelmän periaatteet
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2015-05-13)
Suomen julkinen sektori on kansainvälisessä vertailussa poikkeuksellisen hajautettu paikallistasolle eli kunnille. Tästä syystä valtion kunnille maksamat valtionosuudet ovat merkittävä menoerä. Nyt käsillä olevassa VATT ...