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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kuudes pohjoismainen paikallistalouden konferenssi - yhteenveto.
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2002-01-01)
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 ...
Primary Effect in Open-List Elections
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2016-09-07)
We study how political parties select political leaders. Using regression discontinuity design and data from Finnish local elections, we find that parties use vote ranks to decide upon promotions. Moreover, we show that ...
Kuntaliitosten syntyyn vaikuttavat tekijät
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2010-12-20)
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 ...
Asfalttikartellin kunnille aiheuttamien vahinkojen arviointi - Loppuraportti
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2011-06-14)
Suomessa toimi vuosina 1994-2002 kartelli päällystystoimialalla. Tässä Valtion taloudellisen tutkimuskeskuksen ja kuntien yhdessä rahoittamassa selvityksessä on arvioitu kartellin kuntasektorille aiheuttamia vahinkoja ...
Coalition formation and political decision making: Evidence from Finnish municipal mergers
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2010-12-20)
This paper analyzes empirically the coalition formation of local governments. We introduce a novel econometric strategy involving choice based sampling from a spatial network to allow for multi-partner mergers in our ...