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    • Household heterogeneity in valuation of heating energy costs 

      Sahari, Anna
      VATT Working Papers : 141 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 16.03.2021)
      This paper studies consumer heterogeneity in the valuation of lifetime heating energy costs. The valuation is expressed as the willingness to pay higher upfront costs to obtain savings over the lifetime of the heating ...

    • Housing allowance and rents: Evidence from a stepwise subsidy scheme 

      Eerola, Essi; Lyytikäinen, Teemu
      VATT Working Papers : 88 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 31.05.2017)
      This paper studies the effect of housing allowance on rents using discontinuities in the Finnish housing allowance system as a quasi-experimental setting. The stepwise dependence of housing allowance on the floor area of ...

    • Housing transfer taxes and household mobility: Distortion on the housing or labour market? 

      Lyytikäinen, Teemu; Hilber, Christian A. L.
      VATT Working Papers : 47 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 09.08.2013)
      We estimate the effect of the UK Stamp Duty Land Tax on household mobility using micro data. Exploiting a discontinuity in the tax schedule as a quasiexperimental setting, we isolate the impact of the stamp duty from other ...

    • How do small firms respond to tax schedule discontinuities? Evidence from South African tax registers 

      Boonzaaier, Wian; Harju, Jarkko; Matikka, Tuomas; Pirttilä, Jukka
      VATT Working Papers : 85 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 28.04.2017)
      We study the responsiveness of small and medium-sized firms to corporate income taxes using population-wide administrative data from South Africa. We find sizable bunching of firms at the corporate income thresholds where ...

    • The impact of dividend taxation on dividends and investment: New evidence based on a natural experiment 

      Kari, Seppo; Karikallio, Hanna; Pirttilä, Jukka
      VATT Working Papers : 9 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 08.09.2009)
      There is a lack of clear evidence of the ways in which dividend taxation affects dividend distributions and investment and the evidence is based mainly on the behaviour of large listed companies. This paper utilises a large ...

    • The impact of school closures on student achievement - evidence from rural Finland 

      Izadi, Ramin
      VATT Working Papers : 63 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 05.06.2015)
      Over the last two decades, many municipalities in Finland have attempted to cut costs by closing small schools. In particular, rural schools with low enrolment have been the target of these savings. This continuing tendency ...

    • The impact of tax incentives on the economic activity of entrepreneurs 

      Kosonen, Tuomas; Harju, Jarkko
      VATT Working Papers : 42 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 10.01.2013)
      Based on existing evidence, we know little about how the taxation of small business owners affects their economic activity. This paper studies the effect of two Finnish tax reforms, in 1997 and 1998, on the effort decisions ...

    • Improving Performance Through Allocation and Competition: Evidence from a Patient Choice Reform 

      Kortelainen, Mika; Laine, Liisa T.; Lavaste, Konsta; Saxell, Tanja; Siciliani, Luigi
      VATT Working Papers : 156 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 04.10.2023)
      We study the allocative effects of enhancing consumer choice and non-price competition in markets with heterogeneous producers. We use comprehensive administrative data and a difference-in-differences design based on the ...

    • In Sickness and in Health: Job Displacement and Health. Spillovers in Couples 

      Gathmann, Christina; Huttunen, Kristiina; Jernström, Laura; Sääksvuori, Lauri; Stitzing, Robin
      VATT Working Papers : 133 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 09.06.2020)
      We study how a negative labor market shock like job loss generates health spillovers in couples. Using administrative data of all workers and firms matched to mortality and patient records, we document that male job ...

    • Incentives, Health, and Retirement: Evidence from a Finnish Pension Reform 

      Ollonqvist, Joonas; Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Laaksonen, Mikko; Martikainen, Pekka; Pirttilä, Jukka; Tarkiainen, Lasse
      VATT Working Papers : 145 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 05.07.2021)
      We analyse the effects of changes in retirement incentives on retirement behaviour, and in particular whether individuals' health status modifes the effects of retirement incentives. We study these issues in the context ...

    • Information Integration, Coordination Failures, and Quality of Prescribing 

      Böckerman, Petri; Laine, Liisa T.; Nurminen, Mikko; Saxell, Tanja
      VATT Working Papers : 135 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 26.10.2020)
      Poor information flows hamper coordination, potentially leading to suboptimal decisions in health care. We examine the effects of a nationwide policy of information integration on the quality of prescribing. We use the ...

    • Informational Efficiency of the EU ETS market – a study of price predictability and profitable trading 

      Aatola, Piia; Ollikka, Kimmo; Ollikainen, Markku
      VATT Working Papers : 28 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 22.03.2012)
      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 

      Berghäll, Elina
      VATT Working Papers : 77 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 12.10.2016)
      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 ...

    • Institutional rules, labour demand and retirement through disability programme participation 

      Kyyrä, Tomi; Korkeamäki, Ossi
      VATT Working Papers : 16 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 27.09.2010)
      We use matched employer-employee data from Finland to model transitions out of work into sick leave and disability retirement. To identify the role of institutional factors we exploit reforms that changed medical requirements ...

    • Investment Incentives and Tax Competition under the Allowance for Growth and Investment (AGI) 

      Kari, Seppo; Laitila, Jussi; Ropponen, Olli
      VATT Working Papers : 110 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 24.10.2018)
      We employ a dynamic investment model to study the investment incentives of the Allowance for Growth and Investment (AGI) proposed by the European Commission in its two-step approach towards the Common Consolidated Corporate ...

    • Job Tasks and Gender Wage Gaps within Occupations 

      Bizopoulou, Aspasia
      VATT Working Papers : 124 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 09.10.2019)
      I provide evidence that task use at work by men and women in the same occupations is significantly different. The observed difference can account for the within-occupational gender-wage gap that is prevalent in many developed ...

    • The labour market impacts of a youth guarantee: lessons for Europe? 

      Tuomala, Juha; Hämäläinen, Kari; Hämäläinen, Ulla
      VATT Working Papers : 60 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 18.12.2014)
      This paper examines the youth guarantee programme introduced in Finland 2005. The reform consisted of early intervention, monitoring and individualized job search plans that guarantee activation measures for unemployed ...

    • Labour supply responses to reducing the risk of losing disability insurance benefits 

      Paukkeri, Tuuli; Ravaska, Terhi
      VATT Working Papers : 163 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 21.02.2024)
      We study whether disability insurance (DI) recipients increase their labour supply after the introduction of an automatic reinstatement policy, i.e. a programme mitigating the risk of losing eligibility for DI benefits due ...

    • Local Representation and Strategic Voting: Evidence from Electoral Boundary Reforms 

      Tukiainen, Janne; Saarimaa, Tuukka
      VATT Working Papers : 64 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 11.09.2015)
      We analyze whether voters value local political representation by exploiting municipal mergers, which increase the number of candidates available to voters and intensify political competition. In the Finnish open-list ...

    • Long-Run Effects of Selective Schools on Educational and Labor Market Outcomes 

      Kanninen, Ohto; Kortelainen, Mika; Tervonen, Lassi
      VATT Working Papers : 161 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 13.12.2023)
      This paper analyzes the effects of selective schools on students’ educational and labor market outcomes. We utilize regression discontinuity design based on the centralized admission system of upper secondary schools in ...