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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 ...
Finanssipolitiikan säännöt ja kuntatalous
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2011-06-27)
Selvityksessä käydään läpi paikallista julkistaloutta koskevien finanssipolitiikan sääntöjen taloustieteellisiä perusteluja ja kuvataan yleisimpiä käytäntöjä OECD-maissa ja Pohjoismaissa. Keskeinen havainto Suomen osalta ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kouluvaikutus ja tuloksellisuusrahoitus lukiokoulutuksessa
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-03-17)
Tässä tutkimuksessa arvioidaan lukioihin suunnitellun tuloksellisuusrahoituksen perusteita useista näkökulmista. Aluksi käydään läpi kannustejärjestelmien teoriaperusteita ja sen jälkeen perehdytään niiden käytännön ...
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 ...
Local public sector in transition: A Nordic perspective
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2010-11-11)
This book consists of six original essays of which four discuss and analyse the situation of the local governments in Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway. In addition, two essays provide a more general view of fiscal ...
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 ...
Do Single-Party and Coalition Governments Differ in their Economic Outcomes? Evidence from Finnish Municipalities
(Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus VATT, 2013-10-07)
Even though Finland has proportional elections, single-party control in Finnish local councils is not uncommon contrary to what one might expect. The largest party holds more than half of the seats in every third Finnish ...
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 ...