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Dividend Taxes and Decisions of MNEs: Evidence from a Finnish Tax Reform
(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 ...
The Impact of Forced Migration on Mortality: A Cohort Study of 242,075 Finns from 1939–2010
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2017)
Background: The stresses and life changes associated with migration may have harmful long-term health effects, especially for mental health. These effects are exceedingly difficult to establish, because migrants are typically ...
Effects of Minimum Bid Increments in Internet Auctions: Evidence from a Field Experiment
(Wiley, 2017)
I study the role of minimum bid increments (MBI) in internet auctions using natural field experiment data from a Finnish online auction site Huuto.net. Internet auctions are typically viewed as second-price, implying ...
Regional effects or none? Firms' profitability during the Great Recession in Finland
(Wiley, 2017)
We analyse the effects of the Great Recession (GR) on the profitability of firms located in the main cities versus in the rest of Finland. Based on earlier literature, various regional factors could affect firms' profitability ...
Public health and economic risk assessment of waterborne contaminants and pathogens in Finland
(Elsevier, 2017)
This study shows that a variety of mathematical modeling techniques can be applied in a comprehensive assessment of the risks involved in drinking water production. In order to track the effects from water sources to the ...
What Are the Benefits of the Water Framework Directive? Lessons Learned for Policy Design from Preference Revelation
(Springer Verlag, 2017)
The Water Framework Directive (WFD) seeks to achieve good ecological status of surface waters across the European Union by 2027. The WFD guidelines explicitly recognize the economics of water management by providing ...
Transfer taxes and household mobility: Distortion on the housing or labor market?
(Elsevier, 2017)
We estimate the effect of the UK Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) – a transfer tax on the purchase price of property or land – on different types of household mobility using micro data. Exploiting a discontinuity in the tax ...
Anticipating the Future of Finnish Agrifood Sector by Using Alternative Research Methods
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
The goal of this study is to forecast the future of the Finnish agri-food sector for decision makers and interest groups in order to support the process of policy planning and decision making in a changing EU Common ...
Secular rise in economically valuable personality traits
(National Academy of Sciences, 2017)
Although trends in many physical characteristics and cognitive capabilities of modern humans are well-documented, less is known about how personality traits have evolved over time. We analyze data from a standardized ...
Quantifying the social costs of nuclear energy: Perceived risk of accident at nuclear power plants
(Elsevier, 2017)
The preferences expressed in voting on nuclear reactor licenses and the risk perceptions of citizens provide insights into social costs of nuclear power and decision making in energy policy. We show analytically that these ...