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Modelling Financial Incentives To Get Unemployed Back To Work

Boone, Jan; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job … benefit sanctions are more effective in reducing unemployment than an across the board reduction in the replacement rate. …

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Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Monitoring and Sanctions

Boone, Jan; Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil; Ours, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

effort and benefit sanctions if observed search is deemed insufficient. We find that introducing monitoring and sanctions …

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Experiments on Unemployment Benefit Sanctions and Job Search Behaviour

Boone, Jan; Sadrieh, Abdolkarim; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper presents the results of an experimental study on unemployment benefit sanctions. The experimental set …-up allows us to distinguish between the effects of benefit sanctions once they are imposed (the ex post effect) and the effects … that discourage the unemployed from risking benefit sanctions (the ex ante effect). We find that both effects matter …

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Cross-border media and nationalism: Evidence from Serbian radio in Croatia

Della Vigna, Stefano; Enikolopov, Ruben; Mironova, Vera; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Which factors stand in the way of cooperation between countries formerly at war? We examine the role of nationalistic content of a media outlet reaching citizens of a neighboring country. We consider radio signals travelling across borders in the region that witnessed one of Europe’s deadliest...

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Macroeconomics of International Price Discrimination

Corsetti, Giancarlo; Dedola, Luca - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper builds a baseline two-country model of real and monetary transmission in the presence of optimal international price discrimination by firms. Distributing traded goods to consumers requires non-tradables, intensive in local labour. Because of distributive trade the price elasticity of...

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International Cooperation on Domestic Policies: Lessons from the WTO Competition Policy Debate

Hoekman, Bernard; Saggi, Kamal - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

International cooperation is generally driven by a desire to offset a negative spillover imposed by other countries or to help governments to overcome domestic political economy constraints that impede the adoption of welfare enhancing policy changes. In principle, both conditions are satisfied...

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Multilateral Trade Cooperation: What Next?

Hoekman, Bernard; Vines, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper first briefly describes the role of the WTO and its history. It then lays out a simple bargaining model of international negotiations, which can be used for understanding the Doha round of talks. This simple framework is used to distil and discuss a number of potential explanations...

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Can International Policy Coordination Really Be Counterproductive?

Carraro, Carlo; Giavazzi, Francesco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

This paper shows that international policy coordination is not counterproductive in a world where the incentive to run beggar-thy-neighbor policies internationally arises from the inefficiency that characterizes, within each country, the interaction between policymakers and private agents. The...

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The Simple Geometry of Transmission and Stabilization in Closed and Open Economies

Corsetti, Giancarlo; Pesenti, Paolo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper provides an introduction to the recent literature on macroeconomic stabilization in closed and open economies. We present a stylized theoretical framework, and illustrate its main properties with the help of an intuitive graphical apparatus. Among the issues we discuss: optimal...

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The Dilemma of Labor Unions: Local Objectives vs. Global Bargaining

Eckel, Carsten; Egger, Hartmut - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Multinational enterprises are able to improve their disagreement profits by setting up foreign production facilities, with adverse consequences for negotiated wages and union utilities. In this paper, we take a new angle at this issue and analyze whether unions can improve their situation by...

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