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118: Anatomy of public procurement

Jan Jääskeläinen and Janne Tukiainen

117: Digital Waste? Unintended Consequences of Health Information Technology

Petri Böckerman, Mika Kortelainen, Liisa Laine, Mikko Nurminen and Tanja Saxell

116: Causality in Quantiles and Dynamic Relations in Energy Markets

Evangelos Kyritsis and Jonas Andersson

115: Subsidy Bidding Wars and the Structure of Multi-Plant Firms

Simon Lapointe and Pierre-Henri Morand

114: Lost Boys: Access to Secondary Education and Crime

Kristiina Huttunen, Tuomas Pekkarinen, Roope Uusitalo and Hanna Virtanen

113: Public Procurement versus Laissez-Faire: Evidence from Household Waste Collection

Jaakko Meriläinen and Janne Tukiainen

112: Assessing the Productivity Consequences of Agri-Environmental Practices When Adoption Is Endogenous

Aj A. Bostian, Moriah B. Bostian, Marita Laukkanen and Antti Simola

111: Short-run and long-run food import elasticities with persistent trading habits

Janne Niemi

110: Investment Incentives and Tax Competition under the Allowance for Growth and Investment (AGI)

Seppo Kari, Jussi Laitila and Olli Ropponen

109: Electoral Institutions and Intraparty Cohesion

Konstantinos Matakos, Riikka Savolainen, Orestis Troumpounis, Janne Tukiainen and Dimitrios Xefteris

108: Effectiveness of Private and Public High Schools: Evidence from Finland

Mika Kortelainen and Kalle Manninen

107: "Love Thy Neighbour"? The Effect of Income and Language Differences on Votes for Municipal Secessions

Simon Lapointe

106: Effects of Municipal Mergers on Voter Turnout

Simon Lapointe, Tuukka Saarimaa and Janne Tukiainen

105: Using a Kinked Policy Rule to Estimate the Effect of Experience Rating on Disability Inflow

Tomi Kyyrä and Tuuli Paukkeri

104: The Effect of Relative School Starting Age on Having an Individualized Curriculum in Finland

Aapo Kivinen

103: Victorian Voting: Party Orientation and Class Alignment Revisited

Torun Dewan, Jaakko Meriläinen and Janne Tukiainen

102: When does money stick in education? Evidence from a kinked grant rule

Antti Saastamoinen and Mika Kortelainen

101: Screening through Activation? Differential Effects of a Youth Activation Programme

Caroline Hall, Kaisa Kotakorpi, Linus Liljeberg and Jukka Pirttilä

100: The intergenerational effects of parental higher education: Evidence from changes in university accessibility

Tuomo Suhonen and Hannu Karhunen

99: Economic crises and unemployment persistence: Analysis of job losses during the Finnish 1990s recession

Jouko Verho

98: Political Representation and Effects of Municipal Mergers

Oskari Harjunen, Tuukka Saarimaa and Janne Tukiainen

97: The timing of puberty and gender differences in educational achievement

Kristian Koerselman and Tuomas Pekkarinen

96: The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Graduating During a Recession: Evidence from Finland

Miika Matias Päällysaho

95: Electricity Prices and Consumers' Long-Term Technology Choices: Evidence from Heating Investments

Anna Sahari

94: Gender Specific Relative Age Effects in Politics and Football

Janne Tukiainen, Tuomas Takalo and Topi Hulkkonen

93: The effects of tax-deductible reserves on investment incentives

Seppo Kari

92: The local economic impacts of regeneration projects: Evidence from UK’s Single Regeneration Budget

Stephen Gibbons, Henry Overman and Matti Sarvimäki

91: Targeted Funding, Immigrant Background, and Educational Outcomes: Evidence from Helsinki's “Positive Discrimination†Policy

Mikko Silliman

90: Firm Responses to an Interest Barrier: Empirical Evidence

Jarkko Harju, Ilpo Kauppinen and Olli Ropponen

89: Long-term effects of extended unemployment benefits for older workers

Tomi Kyyrä and Hanna Pesola

88: Housing allowance and rents: Evidence from a stepwise subsidy scheme

Essi Eerola and Teemu Lyytikäinen

87: Estimating the effects of potential benefit duration without variation in the maximum duration of unemployment benefits

Tomi Kyyrä and Hanna Pesola

86: The spike at benefit exhaustion in the Finnish labor market

Tomi Kyyrä, Hanna Pesola and Jouko Verho

85: How do small firms respond to tax schedule discontinuities? Evidence from South African tax registers

Wian Boonzaaier, Jarkko Harju, Tuomas Matikka and Jukka Pirttilä

84: The Effects of Relative School Starting Age on Educational Outcomes in Finland

Martti Kaila

83: Does information increase the take-up of social benefits? Evidence from a new benefit program

Tuomas Matikka and Tuuli Paukkeri

82: The effects of UI benefits on unemployment and subsequent outcomes: Evidence from a kinked benefit rule

Tomi Kyyrä and Hanna Pesola

81: A Note on the Effects of Income-Splitting under Dual Income Tax

Seppo Kari and Olli Ropponen

80: Trade, Productivity and Profits: On Profit levels and Profit margins

Saara Tamminen, Marcel van den Berg and Charles Marrewijk

79: Primary Effect in Open-List Elections

Jaakko Meriläinen and Janne Tukiainen

78: Public Employees as Politicians: Evidence from Close Elections

Ari Hyytinen, Jaakko Meriläinen, Tuukka Saarimaa, Otto Toivanen and Janne Tukiainen

77: Innovation, Competition and Technical Efficiency

Pii Berghäll

76: The evolution of social mobility: Norway over the 20th century

Matti Sarvimäki, Tuomas Pekkarinen and Kjell G Salvanes

75: The effects of size-based regulation on small firms: evidence from VAT threshold

Timo Rauhanen, Jarkko Harju and Tuomas Matikka

74: Worker-level consequences of import shocks

Katariina Nilsson Hakkala and Kristiina Huttunen

73: Do tax incentives for research increase firm innovation? An RD Design for RD

Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Elias Einiö, Ralf Martin, Kieu-Trang Nguyen and John van Reenen

72: Slipping through the Cracks of a Welfare State: Children of Immigrants in Finland

Matti Sarvimäki, Laura Ansala and Ulla Hämäläinen

71: The (Displacement) Effects of Spatially Targeted Enterprise Initiatives: Evidence from UK LEGI

Elias Einiö and Henry Overman

70: Firm types, price-setting strategies, and consumption-tax incidence

Tuomas Kosonen, Jarkko Harju and Oskar Skans

69: The Elasticity of Taxable Income: Evidence from Changes in Municipal Income Tax Rates in Finland

Tuomas Matikka