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On the role of public price information in housing markets
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2012-04-23)
This paper studies the impact of increased price information on the functioning of the housing market. We first study the implications of new information for market outcomes in a theoretical framework so as to disentangle ...
Tax competition among local governments: evidence from a property tax reform in Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2011-08-31)
This paper uses a Finnish policy intervention to study tax competition among local governments. Changes in the statutory lower limits to the property tax rates are used as a source of exogenous variation to estimate the ...
The Incidence of Housing Allowances: Quasi-Experimental Evidence
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2022-10-13)
This paper studies the effects of housing allowances on rents. Our research design is based on a reform that made the allowance more generous for small housing units as a quasi-experimental setting. We find that large ...
Are Voters Rational?
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-09-27)
We test whether voters are rational in the sense that their decision to cast a vote depends on its expected impact on the election outcomes. We provide causal evidence on this rational voting hypothesis by using exogenous ...
Housing allowance and rents: Evidence from a stepwise subsidy scheme
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2017-05-31)
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 ...
The impact of mortgage regulation on homeownership and household leverage: Evidence from Finland's LTV reform
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2022-10-12)
This paper examines the impact of a limit on loan-to-value (LTV) ratios implemented in Finland in 2016. Focusing on households that buy an apartment for the first time, we evaluate how the regulation influenced household ...
Housing transfer taxes and household mobility: Distortion on the housing or labour market?
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-08-09)
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 ...
The effect of church tax on church membership
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2010-12-30)
Abstract
In this study we examine the effect of church tax on the church membership decision using Finnish data. We present both descriptive statistics from an opting-out website and econometric evidence exploiting the ...
Tax Compliance in the Rental Housing Market: Evidence from a Field Experiment
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 2019-10-03)
We study rental income tax compliance using a large-scale randomized fild experiment and register data with third-party information on the ownership of apartments. We analyze the responses of potential landlords to treatment ...