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Helsinki GSE Discussion Papers

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  • Affiliated Common Value Auctions with Costly Entry

    Pauli Murto and Juuso Välimäki

    Many auctions and procurement contests entail nontrivial bidding costs, which makes the bidders’ participation decisions endogenous to the auction design. We analyze the effect of different auction …

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  • Jurisdictional Fragmentation and Sprawl

    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 …

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  • Furlough unemployment

    Heikki Korpela

    I examine the long-established scheme of furloughs in Finland, using detailed data on unemployment spells from 1999 to 2021. Furloughs allow employers in financial difficulty to suspend wages and …

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