Research

Recent working papers and work in progress


Tax Compliance in the Rental Housing Market: Evidence from a Field Experiment (with Tuomas Kosonen, Kaisa Kotakorpi and Teemu Lyytikäinen), FIT Working Paper 14, 2023.

The Incidence of Housing Allowances: Quasi-Experimental Evidence (with Teemu Lyytikäinen, Tuukka Saarimaa and Tuuli Vanhapelto), VATT Working Papers 149, 2022.

The impact of mortgage regulation on homeownership and household leverage: Evidence from Finland's LTV reform (with Teemu Lyytikäinen and Sander Ramboer), VATT Working Papers 148, 2022.

Refereed articles

Revisiting the Effects of Housing Transfer Taxes, (with Oskari Harjunen, Teemu Lyytikäinen and Tuukka Saarimaa), Journal of Urban Economics 124, 103367, 2021. 

Low-income housing policies: affordability and integration, Nordic Economic Policy Review 022, 2021. 

Housing allowance and rents: Evidence from a stepwise subsidy scheme (with Teemu Lyytikäinen), Scandinavian Journal of Economics 123(1), 2021

Delivering Affordable Housing and Neighborhood Quality: A Comparison of Place- and Tenant-Based Programs (with Tuukka Saarimaa), Journal of Housing Economics 42, 2018. [Working paper]

Borrowing constraints and housing market liquidity (with Niku Määttänen), Review of Economic Dynamics 27, 2018.

Macroprudential measures in the housing market - A note on the empirical literature, Journal of Risk Finance 18(3), 2017.

On the role of public price information in housing markets (with Teemu Lyytikäinen), Regional Science and Urban Economics 53, 2015.  

The optimal tax treatment of housing capital in the neoclassical growth model (with Niku Määttänen), Journal of Public Economic Theory 15(6), 2013.

Borrowing constraints and house price dynamics: the case of large shocks (with Niku Määttänen), Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics 16(3), 2012.

Voting for environmental policy under income and preference heterogeneity (with Anni Huhtala), American Journal of Agricultural Economics 90(1), 2008.

On the Political Economy of Housing's Tax Status (with Niku Määttänen), The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics 6(2) (Topics), 2006. 

International Trade Agreements, Environmental Policy, and Relocation of Production, Resource and Energy Economics 28(4), 2006.

Forest Conservation – Too Much or Too Little? A Political Economy Model, Environmental and Resource Economics 27(4), 2004.

Strategic Alliances, Joint Investment, and Market Structure (with Niku Määttänen), International Journal of Industrial Organization 22(2), 2004.

Environmental Tax Competition in the Presence of Multinational Firms, International Tax and Public Finance 11(3), 2004.

Citizens should vote on secession (with Niku Määttänen and Panu Poutvaara), Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy 4(1), 2004.