Selaus syöttöajan mukaan kokoelmasssa Vertaisarvioidut artikkelit (Peer-reviewed articles)
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The impact of wind power and electricity demand on the relevance of different short-term electricity markets: The Nordic case
Applied Energy : Open Access (Elsevier, 2021)Electricity wholesale markets are undergoing rapid transformation due to the increasing shares of variable renewable energy sources. We therefore asked whether trading activity is shifting from the traditionally dominant ... -
Digitalisation in wind and solar power technologies
Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews : Open Access (Elsevier, 2021)Smart energy transition includes a widespread deployment of clean energy technologies and intelligent energy management with information and communication technologies (ICTs). In this paper, the smart energy transition is ... -
Revisiting the effects of housing transfer taxes
Journal of Urban Economics : Open Access (Elsevier, 2021)Housing transfer taxes are fiscally important in many countries despite evidence of substantial welfare costs. We argue that the welfare costs are larger than previously thought because previous studies ignore spillovers ... -
Neighbors' Effects on University Enrollment
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (American Economic Association, 2021)This paper provides causal evidence that close neighbors signigicantly influence potential applicants' decision to attend university. I create a unique dataset combining detailed geographic information and individual ... -
O Brother, Where Start Thou? Sibling Spillovers on College and Major Choice in Four Countries
The Quarterly Journal of Economics : 3 (Open Access) (Oxford University Press, 2021)Family and social networks are widely believed to influence important life decisions, but causal identification of those effects is notoriously challenging. Using data from Chile, Croatia, Sweden, and the United States, ... -
Removing Welfare Traps: Employment Responses in the Finnish Basic Income Experiment
AEJ: Economic Policy : Forthcoming (American Economic Association, 2021)This paper provides evidence that replacing minimum unemployment benefits with a basic income of equal size has minor employment effects at best. We examine an experiment in Finland in which 2,000 benefit recipients were ... -
Beyond Black and White: The Impact of Asian Peers on Scholastic Achievement
Economics of Education Review : Open Access (Elsevier, 2021)This paper examines the effects of Asian peers on non-Asian student achievement in New York City public schools. We use exogenous variation in the share of Asian students across cohorts within schools stemming from a ... -
Low-income housing policies: affordability and integration
Nordic Economic Policy Review : 2021:022 (Nordic Council of Ministers, 2021)I review the literature on housing policies intended to improve the housing conditions of low-income households and discuss the conclusions that can be drawn from the literature. I distinguish between tenant-based programs ... -
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 ... -
Using Payroll Tax Variation to Unpack the Black Box of Firm-Level Production
Journal of the European Economic Association : Available online (Oxford University Press, 2021)This paper uses quasi-experimental variation in payroll tax rates in Finland to investigate how firms use their input factors. We find that higher payroll tax rates lead to large employment responses and have no effects ... -
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 ... -
Using meta-models in simulation-based investment analysis – studying the financing mix of metal mining investments
Fuzzy Economic Review : 1 (SIGEF, 2020)This paper is the first documented research effort on how simple meta-models can be used in simulation-based investment analysis. Modern computers allow the construction and simulation of near real-world emulating models, ... -
The labor market in Finland, 2000–2018
IZA World of Labor (IZA Institute of Labor Economics, 2020)Finland's population is aging rapidly by international comparison. The shrinking working-age population means that the burden of increasing pension and health care expenditures is placed on a smaller group of employed ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Analyzing Renewable Energy Policies – Using the Pay-Off Method to Study the Finnish Auction-Based Renewable Energy Policy
Journal of Environmental Informatics Letters : 2 (ISEIS, 2020)Design of support-mechanisms is an important component of renewable energy policy. In order to be able to choose desirable designs one must have a good understanding of the most likely outcomes from different policy designs ... -
The effects of using participatory working time scheduling software on sickness absence: A difference-in-differences study
International Journal of Nursing Studies : Available online (Elsevier, 2020)Background Participatory working time scheduling is a collaborative approach to scheduling shift work. As a potential way of improving work time control, it may provide a means to reducing sickness absence in shift work. ... -
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 ... -
The local economic impacts of regeneration projects: Evidence from UK's Single Regeneration Budget
Journal of Urban Economics : Available online (Elsevier, 2020)We study the local economic impacts of a major UK regeneration programme aimed at enhancing the quality of life in deprived neighbourhoods. Our identification strategies include: a) exploiting the fine spatial scale of our ... -
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 ...
