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Only a small fraction of inventors are women. Using Finnish administrative data linked to patent records, I show that educational and occupational sorting explain roughly 54% of the gender gap in …
Oskari Harjunen, Eetu Kauria, Tuukka Saarimaa, Janne Tukiainen: Jurisdictional Fragmentation and Sprawl
This paper explores the connection between jurisdictional fragmentation and sprawl. We utilize Finnish municipal mergers as a quasi-experiment which induces exogenous variation in the number of local …
Aapo Aaltio, Riku Buri, Antto Jokelainen, Johan Lundberg
A key challenge in cartel enforcement is identifying collusive agreements. We study two major Nordic procurement cartels that operated in the asphalt paving market. We find evidence that during the …