Selaus nimekkeen mukaan kokoelmassa Vertaisarvioidut artikkelit (Peer-reviewed articles)
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Gender differences in behaviour under competitive pressure: Evidence on omission patterns in university entrance examinations
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (Elsevier, 2015)This paper studies gender differences in performance in university entrance examinations. We exploit data from the exams that the Finnish universities that provide education in economics and business use to choose their ... -
Gender-specific top incomes: are they Pareto distributed?
Economics Bulletin : 3 (Open Access) (Economics Bulletin, 2020)Estimating the Pareto alpha parameters from the top income distribution separately for women and men can provide information on gender inequality at the top (Atkinson et al. 2018). However, whether the top incomes for women ... -
Government payments, market profits and structural change in agriculture - A replicator dynamics approach
Journal of Evolutionary Economics : 4 (Springer Verlag, 2018)I analyze the interaction of two institutions, markets and public policies, and their effect on structural change in agriculture. More specifically, I consider how subsidies affect functioning of input and output markets, ... -
Housing Allowance and Rents: Evidence from a Stepwise Subsidy Scheme
Scandinavian Journal of Economics : 1 (Wiley, 2021)In this paper, we study the effect of housing demand subsidies on rents using discontinuities in the Finnish housing allowance system as a quasi‐experimental setting. The stepwise dependence of housing allowance on the ... -
How do small firms respond to tax schedule discontinuities? Evidence from South African tax registers
International Tax and Public Finance (Springer US, 2019)We study the responsiveness of small- and medium-sized firms to a small-business corporate income tax schedule using population-wide administrative data from South Africa. We find sizeable bunching of firms at the corporate ... -
How to Leave the Eurozone: The Case of Finland
The Economists' Voice : 1 (De Gruyter, 2018)This article provides thoughts and guidelines on how a country could exit from the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and its currency the euro. We take the hypothetical exit of Finland as a concrete example. Although there ... -
Ignorance is bliss? Information and risk on crowdfunding platforms
PLoS ONE : 6 (open access) (Public Library of Science, 16.06.2023)This research examines the determinants of project success on crowdfunding platforms within a competitive context. We focus on the specific horizontal attributes of the project–attributes that do not affect the project ... -
Immigrant intergenerational mobility: A focus on childhood environment
European Economic Review (Elsevier, 2022)Over 60% of immigrant parents in Sweden start off in the bottom quintile of the income distribution, yet only about 30% of their children are still in the bottom income quintile in adulthood. This progress notwithstanding, ... -
Inequality in mortality between Black and White Americans by age, place, and cause and in comparison to Europe, 1990 to 2018
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) : 40, Open Access (National Academy of Sciences, 2021)Although there is a large gap between Black and White American life expectancies, the gap fell 48.9% between 1990 and 2018, mainly due to mortality declines among Black Americans. We examine age-specific mortality trends ... -
Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing
Journal of Human Resources : 2, Open Access (University of Wisconsin Press, 01.03.2024)Poor information flows hamper coordination, potentially leading to suboptimal decisions in health care. We examine the effects of a large-scale policy of health information integration. We use the staggered adoption of a ... -
Information Technology, Improved Access, and Use of Prescription Drugs
Journal of the European Economic Association : Forthcoming (European Economic Association, 2024)We estimate the effects of health information technology designed to improve access to medication while limiting overuse through easier prescription renewal and improved information provision. We focus on benzodiazepines, ... -
Informational efficiency of the EU ETS market – a study of price predictability and profitable trading
Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy : 1 (Taylor & Francis, 2014)We study the informational efficiency of the European Emissions Trading Scheme, EU ETS market, by simulating the trading in this emerging market. If the market is efficient, profitable trading should only exist locally in ... -
Innovation, competition and technical efficiency
Cogent Business & Management : 3(1), 1199522 (Cogent OA, 2016)Contradictory empirical and theoretical evidence on the relationship between innovation and competition has been reconciled in a model that yields an inverted U-shaped curve. I test whether the predictions of the model are ... -
Innovators, followers and laggards in home solar PV: Factors driving diffusion in Finland
Energy Research & Social Science : (Open access) (Elsevier, 22.06.2023)Generating electricity from solar energy is a way for households to participate in the ongoing transition to decarbonized and more decentralized energy systems. A large empirical literature has examined the drivers and ... -
Integrated frameworks for assessing and managing health risks in the context of managed aquifer recharge with river water
Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management : 1 (Wiley, 2016)Integrated assessment and management of water resources for the supply of potable water is increasingly important in light of projected water scarcity in many parts of the world. This article develops frameworks for ... -
Integrating Immigrants: The Impact of Restructuring Active Labor Market Programs
Journal of Labor Economics : 2 (University of Chicago Press, 2016)We examine the impact of restructuring active labor market programs for unemployed immigrants in Finland. Exploiting a discontinuity in the phase-in rules of the reform, we find that it increased compliers’ cumulative ... -
Intensive margin of land use in CGE models – Reviving CRESH functional form
Land Use Policy (Elsevier, 2015)In this study I suggest that computable general equilibrium (CGE) studies of land use change could benefit from more careful modeling of the intensive margin. That requires more attention placed on the production function. I ... -
International fisheries agreements and non-consumptive values
Fisheries Research (Elsevier, 2018)The management of internationally shared fish stocks is a major economic, environmental and political issue. According to international law, these resources should be managed cooperatively under international fisheries ... -
International Fisheries Management and Recreational Benefits: The Case of Baltic Salmon
Marine Resource Economics : 4 (University of Chicago Press, 2016)This article studies how accounting for the benefits of recreational fisheries affects the formation and stability of an international fisheries agreement (IFA) on the management of Baltic salmon stocks. The interaction ... -
It’s time to learn: School institutions and returns to instruction time
Economics of Education Review : Available online (Elsevier, 2021)This paper investigates whether the effects of a reform that substantially increased daily instruction time in Chilean primary schools vary depending on school institutions. Focusing on incumbent students and exploiting ...