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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 ...
PARAS-hankkeen aikana toteutettujen kuntaliitosten vaikutukset
(Taloustieteellinen yhdistys, 2018-06-05)
Matti Vanhasen hallitus käynnisti keväällä 2006 PARAS-hankkeena tunnetun kunta- ja palvelurakenteen uudistuksen. Hankkeen tavoitteena oli luoda kuntapalvelujen järjestämiselle ja tuottamiselle vahva taloudellinen perusta. ...
Political representation and effects of municipal mergers
(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 ...
Effects of municipal mergers on voter turnout
(Taylor & Francis, 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 ...
Relative age effects in political selection
(Elsevier, 2019)
We exploit a regression discontinuity design to provide causal evidence of the relative age effect (RAE) on a long-run adult age outcome: Political selection. We find strong evidence of the RAE in politics in Finland. ...
Are voters rational?
(Elsevier, 2019)
We test whether a voter's decision to cast a vote depends on its probability of affecting the election outcome. Using exogenous variation arising at population cutoffs determining council sizes in Finnish municipal elections, ...
Rank effects in political promotions
(Springer Verlag, 2018)
This paper studies the effect of candidates’ personal vote ranks on promotions to political power in an open list proportional representation system. Using a regression discontinuity design and data from Finnish local ...
Kuudes pohjoismainen paikallistalouden konferenssi - yhteenveto.
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2002-01-01)
Common pool problems in voluntary municipal mergers
(Elsevier, 2015)
We analyze free-riding behavior of Finnish municipalities prior to voluntary municipal mergers. The merger process creates a temporary common pool problem, because of a delay from the initial decision to the actual merger ...
Local representation and strategic voting: Evidence from electoral boundary reforms
(Elsevier, 2016)
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 ...