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    • Does decentralization of decisions increase the stability of large groups? 

      Bjedov, Tjaša; Lapointe, Simon; Madiès, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire
      Social Choice and Welfare : 4 (Springer Verlag, 2018)
      Using a laboratory experiment with nested local and global public goods, we analyze the stability of global groups when individuals have the option to separate, according to the degree of decentralization of decision-making. ...

    • Does market size matter for charities? 

      Lapointe, Simon; Perroni, Carlo; Scharf, Kimberley; Tukiainen, Janne
      Journal of Public Economics (Elsevier, 2018)
      We analyze implications of market size for market structure in the charity sector. While a standard model of oligopolistic for-profit competition predicts a positive relationship between market size and firm size, our ...

    • Effects of municipal mergers on voter turnout 

      Lapointe, Simon; Saarimaa, Tuukka; Tukiainen, Janne
      Local Government Studies : 4 (Taylor & Francis, 2018)
      We study the effects of municipal mergers on voter turnout in a difference-in-differences framework, using data from a wave of municipal mergers in Finland in 2009. Analysing two pre-merger elections and three post-merger ...

    • Effects of Municipal Mergers on Voter Turnout 

      Lapointe, Simon; Saarimaa, Tuukka; Tukiainen, Janne
      VATT Working Papers : 106 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 28.03.2018)
      We study the effects of municipal mergers on voter turnout in a difference-in-differences framework, using data from a wave of municipal mergers in Finland in 2009. Analysing two pre-merger elections and three post-merger ...

    • Inefficiencies in the Financing of Finnish County Governments - Lessons from the Literature on Fiscal Federalism 

      Kortelainen, Mika; Lapointe, Simon
      VATT Research Reports : 188 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 23.01.2019)
      The Finnish regional government reform currently under consideration will create a new tier of regional county governments, which will be responsible mainly for the provision of health and social care services. On the ...

    • "Love thy neighbour"? The effect of income and language differences on votes for municipal secessions 

      Lapointe, Simon
      Regional Science and Urban Economics (Elsevier, 2018)
      This paper studies voters’ preferences on municipal borders in a setting with cohabiting linguistic communities. It takes advantage of unique data from referendum results in the Canadian province of Quebec in 2004, which ...

    • "Love Thy Neighbour"? The Effect of Income and Language Differences on Votes for Municipal Secessions 

      Lapointe, Simon
      VATT Working Papers : 107 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 16.04.2018)
      This paper studies voters' preferences on municipal borders in a setting with cohabiting linguistic communities. It takes advantage of unique data from referendum results in the Canadian province of Quebec in 2004, which ...

    • Subsidy Bidding Wars and the Structure of Multi-Plant Firms 

      Lapointe, Simon; Morand, Pierre-Henri
      VATT Working Papers : 115 (Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus, 22.01.2019)
      Governments spend large amounts of money to attract firms to their territory, often resulting from bidding wars against other regions. Previous papers show that such bidding wars can improve social welfare by allocating ...