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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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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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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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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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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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The European Monetary System and the Franc-Mark Asymmetry

Cohen, Daniel; Melitz, Jacques; Oudiz, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

What purpose does the European Monetary System serve? Who benefits from it? Is it a Deutschmark zone? Or could one argue that, despite the asymmetrical positions of France and Germany, the System does serve a certain collective interest? An attempt to answer these questions reveals a basic...

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How Will Transatlantic Policy Interactions Change with the Advent of EMU?

Eichengreen, Barry; Ghironi, Fabio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This paper analyses US–European policy interactions under different assumptions about the policy-making regime and the nature of the fiscal environment, contrasting the standard Keynesian case with an anti-Keynesian case in which government spending cuts are expansionary. When fiscal policy is...

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International Dimensions of Optimal Monetary Policy

Corsetti, Giancarlo; Pesenti, Paolo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper provides a baseline general-equilibrium model of optimal monetary policy among interdependent economies with monopolistic firms and nominal rigidities. An inward-looking policy of complete domestic output stabilization is not optimal when firms' markups are exposed to currency...

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