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    • Effects of Municipal Mergers on Voter Turnout 

      Lapointe, Simon; Saarimaa, Tuukka; Tukiainen, Janne
      VATT Working Papers : 106 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 28.03.2018)
      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 ...

    • "Love Thy Neighbour"? The Effect of Income and Language Differences on Votes for Municipal Secessions 

      Lapointe, Simon
      VATT Working Papers : 107 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 16.04.2018)
      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 ...

    • Metropolialueen hallintomallit taloustutkimuksen näkökulmasta 

      Moisio, Antti
      VATT Valmisteluraportit : 7 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 01.03.2011)
      Tässä raportissa vertaillaan Helsingin metropolialueelle esitettyjä hallintomalleja taloustutkimuksen näkökulmasta. Yleinen päätelmä on, että kaikki julkisuudessa käsitellyt vaihtoehdot voisivat ratkaista metropolialueen ...

    • Political representation and effects of municipal mergers 

      Harjunen, Oskari; Saarimaa, Tuukka; Tukiainen, Janne
      Political Science Research and Methods : Available online (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
      We study the effects of municipal mergers using novel geocoded data on local public sector jobs and local politicians' place of residence. We find that the mergers had no effects on municipal expenditures overall after ...

    • Political Representation and Effects of Municipal Mergers 

      Harjunen, Oskari; Saarimaa, Tuukka; Tukiainen, Janne
      VATT Working Papers : 98 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 18.10.2017)
      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 ...

    • 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 ...