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The Loss of Production Work: Identification of Demand Shifts Based on Local Soviet Trade Shocks
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2015-03-25)
This paper examines changes in the structure of labor demand in panel data on Finnish manufacturing plants. I exploit general equilibrium effects on unit labor costs in local labor markets induced by the 1990 collapse of ...
Local Representation and Strategic Voting: Evidence from Electoral Boundary Reforms
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2015-09-11)
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 ...
The Elasticity of Taxable Income: Evidence from Changes in Municipal Income Tax Rates in Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2015-12-18)
The elasticity of taxable income (ETI) is a key parameter in income tax analysis both in terms of efficiency and tax revenue. This paper uses Finnish panel data to analyze ETI. I use changes in flat municipal income tax ...
Corporate tax in an international environment - Problems and possible remedies
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2015-03-17)
This paper addresses the problems of corporate taxation in a globalized world. It first illustrates recent trends in international practices and then reviews the literature on the effects of corporate taxes in closed and ...
Does Regression Discontinuity Design Work? Evidence from Random Election Outcomes
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2015-09-21)
We use elections data in which a large number of ties in vote counts between
candidates are resolved via lottery. We benchmark non-experimental RDD estimates
of personal incumbency advantage against the estimate produced ...
The impact of school closures on student achievement - evidence from rural Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2015-06-05)
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 ...
What are the benefits of the Water Framework Directive? Lessons learned for policy design from preference revelation
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2015-10-21)
The Water Framework Directive (WFD) seeks to achieve good ecological status of surface waters across the European Union by 2027. The WFD guidelines explicitly recognize the economics of water management by providing ...
One or Two Tiers of Local Government? – The Cost Effects of a Regional Experiment
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2015-09-24)
This paper evaluates the cost effects of a Finnish regional self-government experiment. The experiment introduced a new intermediate tier of local administration that was given the responsibility to organize 60 per cent ...
Firm types, price-setting strategies, and consumption-tax incidence
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2015-12-29)
Studying very detailed micro data collected around two different VAT reforms in Europe, we show that tax incidence is heavily dependent on the characteristics of the price-setting firms. The reforms generated bimodal ...
Who Benefits from Public Housing?
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2015-12-17)
This paper studies how much public housing generates rent savings for the tenants, how these savings are distributed among the tenants, and whether the tenants reside in better quality neighborhoods than similar low-income ...