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68: Who Benefits from Public Housing?

Essi Eerola and Tuukka Saarimaa

67: Self-Selection of Emigrants: Theory and Evidence on Stochastic Dominance in Observable and Unobservable Characteristics

George Borjas, Ilpo Kauppinen and Panu Poutvaara

66: What are the benefits of the Water Framework Directive? Lessons learned for policy design from preference revelation

Anni Huhtala and Janne Artell

65: One or Two Tiers of Local Government? – The Cost Effects of a Regional Experiment

Antti Moisio and Kari Hämäläinen

64: Local Representation and Strategic Voting: Evidence from Electoral Boundary Reforms

Janne Tukiainen and Tuukka Saarimaa

63: The impact of school closures on student achievement - evidence from rural Finland

Ramin Izadi

62: Corporate tax in an international environment - Problems and possible remedies

Seppo Kari

61: The Loss of Production Work: Identification of Demand Shifts Based on Local Soviet Trade Shocks

Elias Einiö

60: The labour market impacts of a youth guarantee: lessons for Europe?

Juha Tuomala, Kari Hämäläinen and Ulla Hämäläinen

59: Does Regression Discontinuity Design Work? Evidence from Random Election Outcomes

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

58: Best Education Money Can Buy? Capitalization of School Quality in Finland

Tuukka Saarimaa, Oskari Harjunen and Mika Kortelainen

57: Dimming Hopes for Nuclear Power: Quantifying the Social Costs of Perceptions of Risks

Anni Huhtala and Piia Remes (née Aatola)

56: The Elasticity of Taxable Income and Income-shifting: What is "Real" and What is Not?

Jarkko Harju and Tuomas Matikka

55: Taxable Income Elasticity and the Anatomy of Behavioral Response: Evidence from Finland

Tuomas Matikka

54: Multinationals, Competition and Productivity Spillovers through Worker Mobility

Katariina Hakkala and Alessandro Sembenelli

53: Common Pool Problems in Voluntary Municipal Mergers

Tuukka Saarimaa and Janne Tukiainen

52: Restaurant VAT cut: Cheaper meal and more service?

Tuomas Kosonen and Jarkko Harju

51: Do Single-Party and Coalition Governments Differ in their Economic Outcomes? Evidence from Finnish Municipalities

Jaakko Meriläinen

50: Are Voters Rational?

Teemu Lyytikäinen and Janne Tukiainen

49: More haircut after VAT cut? On the efficiency of service sector consumption taxes

Tuomas Kosonen

48: The role of information in tax compliance: Evidence from a natural field experiment

Tuomas Kosonen and Olli Ropponen

47: Housing transfer taxes and household mobility: Distortion on the housing or labour market?

Teemu Lyytikäinen and Christian Hilber

46: Does experience rating reduce disability inflow?

Tomi Kyyrä and Juha Tuomala

45: Regionalization and its effects in Finland – a regional AGE modelling analysis

Juha Honkatukia, Jouko Kinnunen, Jussi Ahokas, Antti Simola and Saara Tamminen

44: Effects of minimum bid increment in internet auctions: Evidence from a field experiment

Janne Tukiainen

43: Entrepreneurs and income-shifting: Empirical evidence from a Finnish tax reform

Jarkko Harju and Tuomas Matikka

42: The impact of tax incentives on the economic activity of entrepreneurs

Tuomas Kosonen and Jarkko Harju

41: Non-linear dividend tax and dynamics of the firm

Seppo Kari and Jussi Laitila

40: Evaluating greening farm policies: A structural model for assessing agri-environmental subsidies

Marita Laukkanen and Celine Nauges

39: The estimation of LES demand elasticities for CGE models

Mira Jussila, Saara Tamminen and Jouko Kinnunen

38: Seat competitiveness and redistricting: Evidence from voting on municipal mergers

Janne Tukiainen, Tuukka Saarimaa and Ari Hyytinen

37: Global trade and climate policy scenarios – Impact on Finland

Juha Honkatukia, Ville Kaitila, Markku Kotilainen and Janne Niemi

36: Do homeowners benefit urban neighborhoods? Evidence from housing prices

Tuukka Saarimaa and Mika Kortelainen

35: Generic substitution policy, prices and market structure: evidence from a quasi-experiment in Finland

Joni Hokkanen, Aki Kangasharju, Ismo Linnosmaa and Hannu Valtonen

34: Variation in price and substitution elasticities between sectors – A microdata analysis

Saara Tamminen and Eljas Tuomaala

33: Voluntary pension savings and tax incentives: Evidence from Finland

Jarkko Harju

32: Company heterogeneity and mark-up variability

Saara Tamminen and Han-Hsin Chang

31: Dimensions of health care system quality in Finland

Jenni Pääkkönen and Timo Seppälä

30: On the role of public price information in housing markets

Teemu Lyytikäinen and Essi Eerola

29: The Effect of Job Displacement on Couples' Fertility Decisions

Kristiina Huttunen and Jenni Kellokumpu

28: Informational Efficiency of the EU ETS market – a study of price predictability and profitable trading

Piia Remes (née Aatola), Kimmo Ollikka and Markku Ollikainen

27: Dividend taxes and decisions of MNEs: Evidence from a Finnish tax reform

Seppo Kari and Jarkko Harju

26: Tax competition among local governments: evidence from a property tax reform in Finland

Teemu Lyytikäinen

25: A Note on the Robustness of Card and Krueger (1994) and Neumark and Wascher (2000)

Olli Ropponen

24: Reconciling the evidence of Card and Krueger (1994) and Neumark and Wascher (2000)

Olli Ropponen

23: To work or not to work? The effct of child-care subsidies on the labour supply of parents

Tuomas Kosonen

22: The Finnish payroll tax cut experiment revisited

Ossi Korkeamäki

21: On the reliability of retrospective unemployment information in European household panel data

Tomi Kyyrä and Ralf Wilke

20: The effect of church tax on church membership

Teemu Lyytikäinen and Torsten Santavirta

19: Coalition formation and political decision making: Evidence from Finnish municipal mergers

Tuukka Saarimaa and Janne Tukiainen

18: What was actually cut in the barbers' VAT cut?

Tuomas Kosonen

17: Early retirement policy in the presence of competing exit pathways: Evidence from policy reforms in Finland

Tomi Kyyrä

16: Institutional rules, labour demand and retirement through disability programme participation

Tomi Kyyrä and Ossi Korkeamäki

15: Granting public or private consumption? Effects of grants on local public spending and income taxes

Heléne Lundqvist

14: Changes in job stability - evidence from lifetime job histories

Roope Uusitalo and Miikka Rokkanen

13: Fiscal policies in Europe and the United States during the Great Depression

Ilja Kristian Kavonius

12: The threat effect of mandatory programme participation in Finland - A study of activation reform of the labour market support system

Juha Tuomala

11: Distributional effects of Finland's climate policy package - Calculations with the new income distribution module of the VATTAGE model

Juha Honkatukia, Kimmo Marttila and Jouko Kinnunen

10: Modelling state dependence and feedback effects between poverty, employment and parental home emancipation among European youth

Sara Ayllón

9: The impact of dividend taxation on dividends and investment: New evidence based on a natural experiment

Seppo Kari, Hanna Karikallio and Jukka Pirttilä

8: Multinational firms and job tasks

Katariina Hakkala, Fredrik Heyman and Fredrik Sjöholm

7: Voluntary pension savings: the effects of the Finnish tax reform on savers' behaviour

Jarkko Harju

6: RD, investment and structural change in Finland: Is low investment a problem?

Pii Berghäll

5: Technological changes, wage inequality and skill premiums: Evidence over three centuries

Jari Ojala and Jaakko Pehkonen

4: Matching inefficiencies, regional disparities and unemployment

Sanna-Mari Hynninen, Aki Kangasharju and Jaakko Pehkonen

3: The optimal tax treatment of housing capital in the neoclassical growth model

Essi Eerola and Niku Määttänen

2: School tracking and development of cognitive skills

Tuomas Pekkarinen, Roope Uusitalo and Sari Pekkala Kerr

1: The effect of receiving supplementary UI benefits on unemployment duration

Tomi Kyyrä, Pierpaolo Parrotta and Michael Rosholm