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Perintöveroa ja luovutusvoittoveroa koskeva raporttimme on nyt julkaistu. Uutta työtä erityisesti aineistoilla perinnönsaajista - aineistoilla, joita ei aiemmin ole ollut käytössä.

He's actually wrong. The evidence doesn't say that! Autor et al's "China Shock" paper has colored the debate on trade to such an extent that many economists (not to mention "economists" like Oren Cass) are convinced that trade with China was a net negative for US workers. But

This is such an important point about how to correctly interpret what shift-share IV and difference-in-differences research designs actually identify. The "missing intercept" problem brought up here applies to many other contexts in economics, not just the "China Shock".

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "The Long-Term Impacts of Mixing the Rich and Poor: Evidence from Conscript Dorms" by Elias Einiö. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Tämä pysäytti lukiessani Ellerin ja Henreksonin Ekonomisk Debatt -artikkelia. Tiedän kyllä, että ns. top-5-julkaisuja pidetään taloustieteessä muita arvokkaampina. On kuitenkin ongelmallista, jos muilla julkaisuilla ei katsota olevan *mitään* merkitystä. nationalekonomi.se/artikel/topp-f…

Some helpful terminology here. A “Type III error” is when you call a “Type I error” a “Type II error”. A “Type IV error” is when you call a “Type II error” a “Type I error”.

Recently accepted to #REStud, ``Colluding against Environmental Regulation," from Jorge Alé-Chilet, Cuicui Chen, Li and Reynaert: restud.com/colluding-agai… #pollution #regulation #collusion

What's the most brutal insult you've ever heard in your language? I think the most savagely specific one that I've ever encountered was from Finnish... sun gradu oli varmaan 20 sivua. It means "your thesis was probably 20 pages long"

“Among articles stating that data was available upon request, only 17% shared data upon request.”

VATT seminar Thu May 8: Jens Wikström Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg discusses their research Should eldercare be subsidized? Theory and evidence from Sweden (joint with Patrizia Massner) 🕥10.30–11.30 (at Economicum, free entry) More of Jens's research: sites.google.com/view/jenswikst…

Torstain VATT-seminaarissa Göteborgin yliopiston tutkija Jens Wikström esittelee tutkimustaan ikääntyneiden palvelujen tukemisesta. Tervetuloa!

It is so much fun to have Jens Wikström, my friend, co-author, and former PhD program office-mate for three years, visit VATT (VATT Institute for Economic Research)! I'm very much looking forward to his talk tomorrow!

Save the date: FIT Seminar with David Seim on Monday 26 May at 2pm (EET)! David Seim 🇪🇪🇸🇪🇺🇦 Theme: Private Health Insurance under Universal Coverage: Balancing Efficiency and Equity Venue: Tampere University Zoom: tuni.zoom.us/j/65804313290

My doctoral thesis in economics, On the Formation of Wages and Wealth, is now available online! Main contribution is Ch1, a theoretical study of wage setting under a combination of sector-wide and firm-level bargaining—so called “two-tier bargaining”. su.diva-portal.org/smash/record.j…

Public funds to Italian firms in disadvantaged areas (ex. Law 488/92) permanently increased employment, but allocation matters: Firms selected by objective rules create more jobs per € than those favored by local politicians. econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

Organisaatiomme uudistuu, ja haemme lisää tutkimusjohtajia. Haku on auki 23.6. asti! valtiolle.fi/fi/tyopaikat/v…

Today Jakob Beuschlein successfully defended his doctoral thesis in economics. Jakob is starting a postdoc at Rockwell foundation in Berlin in the fall. Many congrats! su.se/department-of-…

Congratulations to Ossian Prane who defended his doctoral thesis in economics today! We wish him all the best when he goes to University College London in the fall. su.se/department-of-…

Forthcoming in the AER: "A Model of Populism as a Conspiracy Theory" by Adam Szeidl and Ferenc Szucs. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…