Selaus nimekkeen mukaan kokoelmassa Vertaisarvioidut artikkelit (Peer-reviewed articles)

    • Delivering affordable housing and neighborhood quality: A comparison of place- and tenant-based programs 

      Eerola, Essi; Saarimaa, Tuukka
      Journal of Housing Economics (Elsevier, 2018)
      This paper analyzes the relative merits of large place- and tenant-based housing programs in Finland in terms of housing affordability and neighborhood quality. Using hedonic regression methods and household micro data, ...
    • Design and Evaluation of the Finnish Basic Income Experiment 

      Hämäläinen, Kari; Verho, Jouko
      National Tax Journal : 3 (National Tax Association, 2022)
      The Finnish basic income experiment was an ambitious effort to study basic income in a Nordic welfare state. This paper describes the planning, implementation, and scientific evaluation of the experiment. The randomized ...
    • Digital Coaching System for Real Options Analysis with Multi-expert and Machine Learning Support 

      Kinnunen, Jari; Collan, Mikael; Georgescu, Irina; Hosseini, Zahra
      HCI International 2021 - Late Breaking Papers: Multimodality, eXtended Reality, and Artificial Intelligence. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer Cham, 2021)
      Digitalization and artificial intelligence are growing in importance as parts of decision-support tools in various application domains. One of the important developments in this vein has been the creation of interactive ...
    • Digitalisation in wind and solar power technologies 

      Kangas, H.L.; Ollikka, Kimmo; Ahola, J.; Kim, Y.
      Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews : Open Access (Elsevier, 2021)
      Smart energy transition includes a widespread deployment of clean energy technologies and intelligent energy management with information and communication technologies (ICTs). In this paper, the smart energy transition is ...
    • Dividend Taxes and Decisions of MNEs: Evidence from a Finnish Tax Reform 

      Harju, Jarkko; Kari, Seppo
      CESifo Economic Studies : 1 (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      In this study, we explore how a firm-level dividend tax on redistributed foreign profits affects the financial decisions of a multinational enterprise (MNE). We examine this by using evidence from a recent tax reform in ...
    • Do Tax Incentives Increase Firm Innovation? An RD Design for R&D, Patents, and Spillovers 

      Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Einiö, Elias; Martin, Ralf; Nguyen, Kieu-Trang; Van Reenen, John
      American Economic Journal: Economic Policy : 4 (American Economic Association, 17.05.2023)
      We present evidence of the positive causal impacts of research and development (R&D) tax incentives on a firm’s own innovation and that of its technological neighbors (spillovers). Exploiting a change in the assets-based ...
    • Do Urban Neighborhoods Benefit from Homeowners? Evidence from Housing Prices 

      Kortelainen, Mika; Saarimaa, Tuukka
      The Scandinavian Journal of Economics : 1 (Wiley, 2015)
      Homeownership is heavily subsidized in most countries. The adverse effects of this policy on economic efficiency and income distribution are well documented in the economics literature. The main argument in favor of ...
    • 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 Experience Rating Reduce Sickness and Disability Claims? Evidence from Policy Kinks 

      Kyyrä, Tomi; Paukkeri, Tuuli
      Journal of Health Economics (Elsevier, 2018)
      We study whether the experience rating of employers’ disability insurance premiums affects the inflow to disability benefits in Finland. To identify the causal effect of experience rating, we exploit kinks in the rule that ...
    • Does Mandating Social Insurance Affect Entrepreneurial Activity? 

      Benzarti, Youssef; Harju, Jarkko; Matikka, Tuomas
      American Economic Review: Insights : 2 (American Economic Association, 2020)
      This paper estimates the effect of relaxing the social insurance mandate on entrepreneurial activity using rich administrative data from Finland. We find that relaxing the social insurance mandate leads entrepreneurs to ...
    • 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 ...
    • Does sending letters increase the take-up of social benefits? Evidence from a new benefit program 

      Matikka, Tuomas; Paukkeri, Tuuli
      Empirical Economics : Available online (Springer, 2022)
      The effectiveness of transfer programs in reducing poverty and inequality can be significantly reduced if eligible individuals fail to apply for them. This paper shows that benefit take-up can be influenced by sending ...
    • Does subsidized part-time employment help unemployed workers to find full-time employment? 

      Kyyrä, Tomi; Arranz, José M.; García-Serrano, Carlos
      Labour Economics (Elsevier, 2019)
      We study whether part-time work acts as a bridge towards full-time work for unemployed workers in Spain. We consider a time period when firms were encouraged to create part-time jobs by cutting employers' social security ...
    • Early Retirement Policy in the Presence of Competing Exit Pathways: Evidence from Pension Reforms in Finland 

      Kyyrä, Tomi
      Economica : 325 (Wiley, 2015)
      I study the effects of changes in the eligibility age thresholds for unemployment and part-time pensions, and the effect of tightening medical criteria for disability pension eligibility in Finland. Particular attention ...
    • Economic Crises and Unemployment Persistence: Analysis of Job Losses During the Finnish Recession of the 1990s 

      Verho, Jouko
      Economica : 345 (Wiley, 2019)
      This study estimates the effect of job loss for Finnish workers who were displaced during a severe recession in the early 1990s. The setting provides a sample of workers of which over 90% experienced unemployment after ...
    • Education returns of wage earners and self-employed workers: Comment 

      Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha
      Economics of Education Review : 5 (Elsevier, 2009)
      In a recent paper, García-Mainar and Montuenga-Gómez [García-Mainar, I. & Montuenga-Gómez, V. M. (2005). Education returns of wage earners and self-employed workers: Portugal vs. Spain. Economics of Education Review, 24(2), ...
    • Education returns of wage earners and self-employed workers: Rejoinder 

      Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha
      Economics of Education Review : 5 (Elsevier, 2009)
      In their reply to our comment, García-Mainar and Montuenga-Gómez [García-Mainar, I., & Montuenga-Gómez, V. M. (2009). A response to the comment on education returns of wage earners and self-employed workers. Economics of ...
    • Effectiveness of clinical exome sequencing in adult patients with difficult-to-diagnose neurological disorders 

      Sainio, Markus T.; Aaltio, Juho; Hyttinen, Virva; Kortelainen, Mika; Ojanen, Simo; Paetau, Anders; Tienari, Pentti; Ylikallio, Eemil; Auranen, Mari; Tyynismaa, Henna
      Acta Neurologica Scandinavica : 1, Open Access (Wiley, 2021)
      Objectives: Clinical diagnostics in adults with hereditary neurological diseases is complicated by clinical and genetic heterogeneity, as well as lifestyle effects. Here, we evaluate the effectiveness of exome sequencing ...
    • Effectiveness of Private and Public High Schools: Evidence from Finland 

      Kortelainen, Mika; Manninen, Kalle
      CESifo Economic Studies : 4 (Oxford University Press, 2019)
      A number of papers have compared the effectiveness of private and public schools in different institutional settings. However, most of these studies are observational and do not utilize experimental or quasi-experimental ...
    • Effects of Carbon Reduction Labels: Evidence from Scanner Data 

      Kortelainen, Mika; Raychaudhuri, Jibonayan; Roussillon, Beatrice
      Economic Inquiry : 2 (Wiley, 2016)
      We investigate the effects of carbon reduction labels using a detailed scanner data set. Using a difference-in-differences estimation strategy, we find that having a carbon label has no impact on detergent prices or demand. ...