Helsinki GSE Discussion Papers

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Helsinki GSE Discussion Papers

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  • Family Taxation and Labor Supply

    Juuso Mäkinen

    I study a tax policy in Finland in 1976 that changed the basis for income taxation from couple’s joint income to individual income. Following the shift from family taxation to individual taxation, …

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  • Markets, Contracts, or Firms? A Simple Model of Governance

    Tore Ellingsen and Topi Miettinen

    We build a simple formal model of governance. Investments and control rights over assets and labor are fully contractible, but final production decisions are ex ante uncontractible, and ex post …

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  • Commitment and Conflict in Multilateral Bargaining

    Topi Miettinen and Christoph Vanberg

    We theoretically investigate the effects of strategic pre-commitment in multilateral dynamic bargaining. Each round features a commitment stage in which players can declare that they will reject any …

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  • Heterogeneous price commitments

    Saara Hämäläinen

    We provide a theory of dynamic oligopoly pricing with heterogeneous price technologies, captured by the presence of trackers (on the firm-side) and shoppers (on the consumer-side) who can costlessly …

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