Selaus julkaisuajan mukaan kokoelmassa Vertaisarvioidut artikkelit (Peer-reviewed articles)
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Specification of merger gains in the Norwegian electricity distribution industry
Energy Policy (Elsevier, 2017)Electricity distribution often exhibits economies of scale. In Norway, a number of smaller distribution system operators exist and thus there is potential to restructure the industry, possibly through mergers. However, the ... -
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 ... -
The Evolution of Social Mobility: Norway during the Twentieth Century
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics : 1 (Wiley, 2017)We document trends in social mobility in Norway using intergenerational income elasticities, the associations between the income percentiles of fathers and sons, and brother correlations. The results of all approaches ... -
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 ... -
Opportunity Cost Estimation of Ecosystem Services
Environmental and Resource Economics : 4 (Springer Verlag, 2017)Land-use changes rank among the most significant drivers of change in ecosystem services worldwide. The enhancement of important services such as biodiversity and carbon sequestration requires modifications in land-use ... -
Macroprudential measures in the housing markets – a note on the empirical literature
The Journal of Risk Finance : 3 (Emerald, 2017)Purpose: The global financial crisis has led to increased attention on the relationship of household indebtedness and systemic risks. As a result, macroprudential measures aimed at reducing the risks have been introduced ... -
Knowledge Spillovers, the Technology Frontier and High-Tech FDI - Evidence from Finland
Finnish Economic Papers : 1 (Finnish Economic Association, 2017)The link between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the technology frontier is strong in the theoretical and empirical literature, particularly for high-tech multinational corporations. Policymakers aiming to harness local ... -
The Role of Fisheries in Optimal Eutrophication Management
Water Economics and Policy : 2 (World Scientific Publishing, 2017)We analyze dynamically optimal eutrophication management using two controls, targeted fishing and reduction of external nutrient loads. Fishing removes nutrients from the water ecosystem, and the size of the fish stock ... -
Cognitive consequences of the timing of puberty
Labour Economics (Elsevier, 2018)In this paper, we use British cohort data to study the degree to which children at different stages of pubertal development at age 11 and 16 differ in their cognitive and behavioral outcomes at age 16 as well as in their ... -
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 ... -
"Love thy neighbour"? The effect of income and language differences on votes for municipal secessions
Regional Science and Urban Economics (Elsevier, 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 ... -
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 ... -
Effects of municipal mergers on voter turnout
Local Government Studies : 4 (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 ... -
Does Experience Rating Reduce Sickness and Disability Claims? Evidence from Policy Kinks
Journal of Health Economics (Elsevier, 2018)We study whether the experience rating of employers’ disability insurance premiums affects the inflow to disability benefits in Finland. To identify the causal effect of experience rating, we exploit kinks in the rule that ... -
Rank effects in political promotions
Public Choice : 1-2 (Open access) (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 ... -
Optimal taxation and public provision for poverty reduction
International Tax and Public Finance : 1 (Springer Verlag, 2018)The existing literature on optimal taxation typically assumes there exists a capacity to implement complex tax schemes, which is not necessarily the case for many developing countries. We examine the determinants of optimal ... -
Best Education Money Can Buy? Capitalization of School Quality in Finland
CESifo Economic Studies : 2 (Oxford University Press, 2018)By international comparison, Finnish pupil achievement is high and school achievement differences small. The Finnish education system is unusual also because there are no national testing programmes, and information on ...
