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Integrated frameworks for assessing and managing health risks in the context of managed aquifer recharge with river water
(Wiley, 2016)
Integrated assessment and management of water resources for the supply of potable water is increasingly important in light of projected water scarcity in many parts of the world. This article develops frameworks for ...
Quality frontier of electricity distribution: Supply security, best practices, and underground cabling in Finland
(Elsevier, 2016)
Electricity distribution is a prime example of local monopoly. In most countries, the costs of electricity distribution operators are regulated by the government. However, the cost regulation may create adverse incentives ...
Integrating Immigrants: The Impact of Restructuring Active Labor Market Programs
(University of Chicago Press, 2016)
We examine the impact of restructuring active labor market programs for unemployed immigrants in Finland. Exploiting a discontinuity in the phase-in rules of the reform, we find that it increased compliers’ cumulative ...
Local representation and strategic voting: Evidence from electoral boundary reforms
(Elsevier, 2016)
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 ...
Combining quantitative and qualitative research methods to foresee the changes in the Finnish agri-food sector
(Elsevier, 2016)
This paper focuses on the benefit of using two different research methods interactively, namely the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model and Delphi method. This is relevant in the current discussion in futures studies ...
Effects of Carbon Reduction Labels: Evidence from Scanner Data
(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. ...
Business owners and income-shifting: evidence from Finland
(Springer Verlag, 2016)
This study examines income-shifting between tax bases among the owners of privately held businesses. The dual income tax system in Finland offers noticeable incentives for income-shifting between wages and dividends for ...
The elasticity of taxable income and income-shifting: what is “real” and what is not?
(Springer Verlag, 2016)
Previous literature shows that income taxation significantly affects the behavior of high-income earners and business owners. However, it is still unclear how much of the response is due to changes in real economic activity, ...
Innovation, competition and technical efficiency
(Cogent OA, 2016)
Contradictory empirical and theoretical evidence on the relationship between innovation and competition has been reconciled in a model that yields an inverted U-shaped curve. I test whether the predictions of the model are ...
International Fisheries Management and Recreational Benefits: The Case of Baltic Salmon
(University of Chicago Press, 2016)
This article studies how accounting for the benefits of recreational fisheries affects the formation and stability of an international fisheries agreement (IFA) on the management of Baltic salmon stocks. The interaction ...