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On the role of public price information in housing markets
(Elsevier, 2015)
This paper studies the impact of disclosing detailed house price information on the functioning of the housing market. We first study the effects of increased information on market outcomes in a theoretical framework where ...
Common pool problems in voluntary municipal mergers
(Elsevier, 2015)
We analyze free-riding behavior of Finnish municipalities prior to voluntary municipal mergers. The merger process creates a temporary common pool problem, because of a delay from the initial decision to the actual merger ...
Gender differences in behaviour under competitive pressure: Evidence on omission patterns in university entrance examinations
(Elsevier, 2015)
This paper studies gender differences in performance in university entrance examinations. We exploit data from the exams that the Finnish universities that provide education in economics and business use to choose their ...
Corporate tax in an international environment – Problems and possible remedies
(Nordic Tax Research Council, 2015)
The paper addresses the problems of corporate taxation in a globalized world. It first considers recent trends in international practices and then reviews the literature on the effects of corporate taxes in closed and open ...
Combinations of policy instruments to decrease the climate impacts of housing, passenger transport and food in Finland
(Elsevier, 2015)
Policy instruments and measures already target the global warming impacts of housing and transport in many countries, although many of those instruments were not originally developed for the purpose. However, the challenge ...
More and cheaper haircuts after VAT cut? On the efficiency and incidence of service sector consumption taxes
(Elsevier, 2015)
Consumption tax rates targeted at specific sectors are often reformed without any empirical knowledge about the efficiency of these policies. This paper sheds light on tax incidence as well as the efficiency issue, the ...
Intensive margin of land use in CGE models – Reviving CRESH functional form
(Elsevier, 2015)
In this study I suggest that computable general equilibrium (CGE) studies of land use change could benefit from more careful modeling of the intensive margin. That requires more attention placed on the production function.
I ...
The environmental Kuznets curve at different levels of economic development: a counterfactual quantile regression analysis for CO2 emissions
(Taylor & Francis, 2015)
This paper applies the quantile fixed effects technique in exploring the CO2 environmental Kuznets curve within two groups of economic development (OECD and non-OECD countries) and six geographical regions – West, East ...
Do Urban Neighborhoods Benefit from Homeowners? Evidence from Housing Prices
(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 ...
The role of information in tax compliance: Evidence from a natural field experiment
(Elsevier, 2015)
This paper studies how much firms make unintentional mistakes in their tax filing, and to what extent this can be affected by providing information about the tax code. We utilize a novel natural field experiment design, ...