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Public Employees as Politicians: Evidence from Close Elections
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2016-09-27)
We analyze the effect of municipal employees' political representation in municipal councils on local public spending. To quantify the effect, we use within-party, as-good-as random variation in close elections in the ...
Seat competitiveness and redistricting: Evidence from voting on municipal mergers
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-03-24)
We analyze how (anticipated) changes in the competitiveness of the seats of municipal councilors affect their voting behavior over municipal mergers. The competitiveness of the seats changes because the merger changes the ...
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 ...
Effects of minimum bid increment in internet auctions: Evidence from a field experiment
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-02-15)
I study the role of minimum bid increments (MBI) in internet auctions using natural field experiment
data from a Finnish online auction site Huuto.net. Internet auctions are typically viewed as secondprice,
implying truthful ...
Do homeowners benefit urban neighborhoods? Evidence from housing prices
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2012-09-03)
Homeownership is heavily subsidized in many countries mainly through the tax code. The adverse effects of lenient tax treatment of owner-occupied housing on economic efficiency and growth are large and well documented in ...
Dimensions of health care system quality in Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2012-05-28)
This paper evaluates the determinants of quality - cost relationship in primary health care. We first summarize information from various indicators of care by principal component analysis (PCA), effectively producing quality ...
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 ...
Granting public or private consumption? Effects of grants on local public spending and income taxes
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2010-09-27)
While the literature on how intergovernmental grants affect the budget of receiving jurisdictions is numerous, the very few studies that explicitly deal with likely endogeneity problems focus on grants targeted towards ...
Generic substitution policy, prices and market structure: evidence from a quasi-experiment in Finland
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2012-08-24)
The present paper evaluates the quantitative impact of a pharmaceutical reform
on pharmaceutical prices. A generic substitution policy was introduced in
Finland in 2003 to contain rising pharmaceutical expenditure. After ...
Common Pool Problems in Voluntary Municipal Mergers
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-12-27)
We analyze free-riding behavior by Finnish municipalities prior to municipal mergers. The merger process creates a temporary common pool problem, which arises because of a delay from the initial merger decision to the ...