Selaus nimekkeen mukaan kokoelmassa Vertaisarvioidut artikkelit (Peer-reviewed articles)
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Political representation and effects of municipal mergers
Political Science Research and Methods : Available online (Cambridge University Press, 2019)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 ... -
Possibilistic fuzzy pay-off method for real option valuation with application to research and development investment analysis
Fuzzy Sets and Systems (Elsevier, 2021)This paper presents the first fully possibilistic method for real option valuation of investment projects, a new possibilistic variant of the fuzzy pay-off method for real option valuation. The new variant is derived by ... -
Post-secondary education and information on labor market prospects: A randomized field experiment
Labour Economics (Elsevier, 2020)We examine the impact of an information intervention offered to 97 randomly chosen high schools on post-secondary education applications and enrollment in Finland. Graduating students in treatment schools were surveyed and ... -
Prospect Theory, Fairness, and the Escalation of Conflict at a Negotiation Impasse
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics (05 / 2019)We study a bilateral negotiation set‐up where, at a bargaining impasse, the disadvantaged party chooses whether to escalate the conflict or not. Escalation is costly for both parties, and it results in a random draw of the ... -
Public Employees as Politicians: Evidence from Close Elections
American Political Science Review : 1 (Cambridge University Press, 2018)We analyze the effect of municipal employees’ political representation in municipal councils on local public spending. We use within-party, as-good-as-random variation in close elections in the Finnish open-list proportional ... -
Public health and economic risk assessment of waterborne contaminants and pathogens in Finland
Science of The Total Environment (Elsevier, 2017)This study shows that a variety of mathematical modeling techniques can be applied in a comprehensive assessment of the risks involved in drinking water production. In order to track the effects from water sources to the ... -
Public Procurement versus Laissez-Faire: Evidence from Household Waste Collection
CESifo Economic Studies : 4 (Oxford University Press, 2019)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 ... -
Quality frontier of electricity distribution: Supply security, best practices, and underground cabling in Finland
Energy Economics (Elsevier, 2016)Electricity distribution is a prime example of local monopoly. In most countries, the costs of electricity distribution operators are regulated by the government. However, the cost regulation may create adverse incentives ... -
Quality of higher education and earnings: evidence from Finland using field-of-study-level quality measures
International Review of Applied Economics : 1 (Taylor & Francis, 2014)Using administrative data from Finland, this paper empirically examines the relationship between university graduates’ early career earnings and three measures of university quality: the number of teachers per student, the ... -
Quantifying the social costs of nuclear energy: Perceived risk of accident at nuclear power plants
Energy Policy (Elsevier, 2017)The preferences expressed in voting on nuclear reactor licenses and the risk perceptions of citizens provide insights into social costs of nuclear power and decision making in energy policy. We show analytically that these ... -
R&D Subsidies and Company Performance: Evidence from Geographic Variation in Government Funding Based on the ERDF Population-Density Rule
The Review of Economics and Statistics : 4 (MIT Press, 2014)Despite the prevalence of R&D support programs, evaluation studies based on explicit differences in support allocation are rare. In this paper, the identification of the causal effect of R&D support on company performance ... -
Rank effects in political promotions
Public Choice : 1-2 (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 ... -
Regional competitiveness and high growth firms in the EU: the creativity premium
Applied Economics : 22 (Taylor & Francis, 2020)The finding that the economic performance of regions is driven by a small set of productive firms calls for a granular analysis of regional growth and competitiveness. Among the productive firms, a significant contribution ... -
Regional effects or none? Firms' profitability during the Great Recession in Finland
Papers in Regional Science : 1 (Wiley, 2017)We analyse the effects of the Great Recession (GR) on the profitability of firms located in the main cities versus in the rest of Finland. Based on earlier literature, various regional factors could affect firms' profitability ... -
Regional variation in potentially inappropriate medicine use in older adults. - A national register-based cross-sectional study on economic, health system-related and patient-related characteristics
Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy : Available online (Elsevier, 2020)Background: Potentially inappropriate medicines (PIM), i.e. medicines in which the potential harms may outweigh the benefits, use may be associated with e.g. hospitalization, outpatient visits and health care costs. As ... -
Regulation as an enabler of demand response in electricity markets and power systems
Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier, 2018)The reduction of environmental impacts of electricity use and the transition to renewable power generation crucially depend on demand response (DR). This article takes the political commitment to DR as a starting point and ... -
Regulation of short-term consumer credits
Journal of Banking Regulation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)The regulation of short-term consumer credit markets is heatedly debated around the world. This article uses economic research as a basis for a qualitative assessment of the regulation of the short-term consumer credit ... -
Relative age effects in political selection
European Journal of Political Economy (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. ... -
Returns to Office in National and Local Politics: A Bootstrap Method and Evidence from Finland
The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization : 3 (Oxford University Press, 2017)We estimate the private returns to being elected to parliament or to a municipal council using a regression discontinuity (RD) design. We first present a bootstrap method for measuring the closeness of elections, which can ... -
Revenue-maximizing top earned income tax rate in the presence of income-shifting
Nordic Tax Journal : 1 (Nordic Tax Research Council, 2017)We provide an analysis of the revenue-maximizing top earned income tax rate for a country with one of the highest levels of earnings taxation in the world, Finland, and compare it to the current level of taxation. We account ...
