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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 ...
Short-run and long-run food import elasticities with persistent trading habits
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2018-12-17)
This paper provides estimates and explores the role of own price import demand (Armington) elasticities between different source countries for five agricultural commodities in a framework that incorporates temporal dimension ...
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 ...
Lost Boys: Access to Secondary Education and Crime
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2018-12-31)
We study the effect of post-compulsory education on crime by exploiting a regression discontinuity design generated by admission cut-offs to upper secondary schools in Finland. We combine data on school applications with ...
Assessing the Productivity Consequences of Agri-Environmental Practices When Adoption Is Endogenous
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2018-12-17)
We address the general problem of selection bias, endemic to analyzing the effects of any policy where adoption is voluntary, with empirical application to environmental policies for agriculture. Many voluntary practices ...
Investment Incentives and Tax Competition under the Allowance for Growth and Investment (AGI)
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2018-10-24)
We employ a dynamic investment model to study the investment incentives of the Allowance for Growth and Investment (AGI) proposed by the European Commission in its two-step approach towards the Common Consolidated Corporate ...
When does money stick in education? Evidence from a kinked grant rule
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2018-01-22)
We study the effects of intergovernmental grants on school spending within the Finnish system of high school education funding. The system allocates lump-sum intergovernmental grants to local education organizers using a ...
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 ...
Effectiveness of Private and Public High Schools: Evidence from Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2018-05-16)
A number of papers have compared the effectiveness of private and public schools in different institutional settings. However, most of these studies are observational and do not utilize experimental or quasi-experimental ...
"Love Thy Neighbour"? The Effect of Income and Language Differences on Votes for Municipal Secessions
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2018-04-16)
This paper studies voters' preferences on municipal borders in a setting with cohabiting linguistic communities. It takes advantage of unique data from referendum results in the Canadian province of Quebec in 2004, which ...