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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 ...
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 ...
Do homeowners benefit urban neighborhoods? Evidence from housing prices
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2012-09-03)
Homeownership is heavily subsidized in many countries mainly through the tax code. The adverse effects of lenient tax treatment of owner-occupied housing on economic efficiency and growth are large and well documented in ...
Common Pool Problems in Voluntary Municipal Mergers
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-12-27)
We analyze free-riding behavior by Finnish municipalities prior to municipal mergers. The merger process creates a temporary common pool problem, which arises because of a delay from the initial merger decision to the ...
Kuntaliitosten syntyyn vaikuttavat tekijät
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2010-12-20)
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 ...
Ikärakenne kuntien valtionosuusjärjestelmässä: laskennalliset kustannukset sosiaali- ja terveydenhuollossa sekä esi- ja perusopetuksessa
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2012-12-20)
Kuntarakenne paikkatietojärjestelmien näkökulmasta
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2011-07-01)
Coalition formation and political decision making: Evidence from Finnish municipal mergers
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2010-12-20)
This paper analyzes empirically the coalition formation of local governments. We introduce a novel econometric strategy involving choice based sampling from a spatial network to allow for multi-partner mergers in our ...