Selaus nimekkeen mukaan kokoelmassa Vertaisarvioidut artikkelit (Peer-reviewed articles)
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Elasticity of Taxable Income: Evidence from Changes in Municipal Income Tax Rates in Finland
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics : 3 (Wiley, 2018)The elasticity of taxable income (ETI) is a key parameter in income tax analysis both in terms of efficiency and tax revenue. This paper uses Finnish data to analyze the ETI. I use changes in flat municipal income tax rates ... -
Electricity prices and consumers’ long-term technology choices: Evidence from heating investments
European Economic Review (Elsevier, 2019)This paper studies consumers’s sensitivity to energy costs at the moment of making a long-term energy technology investment. The analysis exploits local variation in regulated electricity distribution prices that are ... -
Evidence from Finland and Sweden on the relationship between early-life diseases and lifetime childlessness in men and women
Nature Human Behaviour : Accepted (Open access) (Nature Research, 18.12.2023)The percentage of people without children over their lifetime is approximately 25% in men and 20% in women. Individual diseases have been linked to childlessness, mostly in women, yet we lack a comprehensive picture of the ... -
Ex-Ante Study of Biofuel Policies–Analyzing Policy-Induced Flexibility
Sustainability : 1, Open Access (MDPI, 2022)A variety of policy types are available to foster the transition to a low-carbon economy. In every sector, including transportation, heat and power production, policymakers face the choice of what type of policy to adopt. ... -
Expanding access to administrative data: the case of tax authorities in Finland and the UK
International Tax and Public Finance : 26 (Springer Verlag, 2019)We discuss typical issues in getting access to and using high-quality administrative tax data for research purposes. We discuss research involving both quasi- and field experiments implemented together with the tax authority. ... -
Famine, Inequality, and Conflict
Journal of the European Economic Association : 4 (Oxford University Press, 11 / 2022)This paper employs newly-collected historical data from Finland to present evidence of historically contingent, long-run consequences of a famine. We document high levels of local inequality in terms of income and land ... -
Fasting Glucose and the Risk of Depressive Symptoms: Instrumental-Variable Regression in the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study
International Journal of Behavioral Medicine : 6 (Springer Verlag, 2017)Purpose Type 2 diabetes (T2D) has been associated with depressive symptoms, but the causal direction of this association and the underlying mechanisms, such as increased glucose levels, remain unclear. We used ... -
Field-of-Study Choice in Higher Education: Does Distance Matter?
Spatial Economic Analysis : 4 (Taylor & Francis, 2014)When field-of-study options vary across higher education institutions, geographical distances may create barriers to students’ study choices. Based on this hypothesis, the present study empirically examines field-of-study ... -
Finnish perspectives on the business of electricity distribution
Oxford Open Energy : (Open access) (Oxford University Press, 30.01.2024)The profits of the Finnish industry of electricity distribution are driven by a rate of return regulation model. Changes in the model caused a remarkable jump in DSO profits. The model rewards large costs and gives the ... -
Firm types, price-setting strategies, and consumption-tax incidence
Journal of Public Economics (Elsevier, 2018)We analyze price responses to large restaurant VAT rate reductions in two different European countries. Our results show that responses in the short and medium run were clustered around two focal points of zero pass-through ... -
Formative Experiences and Portfolio Choice: Evidence from the Finnish Great Depression
Journal of Finance : 1 (Wiley, 2017)We trace the impact of formative experiences on portfolio choice. Plausibly exogenous variation in workers’ exposure to a depression allows us to identify the effects and a new estimation approach makes addressing wealth ... -
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 ...
