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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Gender Specific Relative Age Effects in Politics and Football
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-09-05)
The existence of a relative age effect (RAE) is well documented, i.e., those born early in the calendar year perform better at school and sports. We exploit a change in a selection period in youth football and regression ...
Political Representation and Effects of Municipal Mergers
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-10-18)
We study the effects of municipal mergers using novel geocoded data on public sector jobs, housing transactions and local politicians’ place of residence. We find that total municipal expenditures evolve in the same way ...
Primary Effect in Open-List Elections
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2016-09-07)
We study how political parties select political leaders. Using regression discontinuity design and data from Finnish local elections, we find that parties use vote ranks to decide upon promotions. Moreover, we show that ...