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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 ...
Rank effects in political promotions
(Springer Verlag, 2018)
This paper studies the effect of candidates’ personal vote ranks on promotions to political power in an open list proportional representation system. Using a regression discontinuity design and data from Finnish local ...
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 ...
Public Procurement versus Laissez-Faire: Evidence from Household Waste Collection
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2018-12-20)
We document that switching from laissez-faire production to public procurement in residential waste collection in Finland reduces the number of firms active in the local market, but induces a statistically significant and ...
Effects of Municipal Mergers on Voter Turnout
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2018-03-28)
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 ...
Expanding access to administrative data: The case of tax authorities in Finland and the UK
(VATT Institute for Economic Research, 2018-03-20)
We discuss typical issues in getting access to and using high-quality administrative tax data and in cooperating with the tax authority, including running field experiments. We reflect on practical solutions to these issues, ...
Arvioita kuntien käyttötalouden kannustinjärjestelmistäUtvärderingar om kommunernas finansieringsincitamentEvaluation of incentive models for municipal finance
(Valtioneuvoston kanslia, 2018-06-29)
Hallituksen linjausten mukaisesti kuntien tehtävistä ja velvoitteista on tarkoitus löytää säästöjä noin miljardin euron edestä. Eräänä keinona on esitetty kuntien käyttötalouden kannustinmallia. Mallin olisi tarkoitus ...