Selaus asiasanan mukaan kokoelmassa VATT Working Papers

    • Coalition formation and political decision making: Evidence from Finnish municipal mergers 

      Saarimaa, Tuukka; Tukiainen, Janne
      VATT Working Papers : 19 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 20.12.2010)
      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 ...
    • Seat competitiveness and redistricting: Evidence from voting on municipal mergers 

      Tukiainen, Janne; Saarimaa, Tuukka; Hyytinen, Ari
      VATT Working Papers : 38 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 24.03.2013)
      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 ...