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Getting People into Work: What (if Anything) Can Justify Mandatory Activation of Welfare Recipients?

Molander, Anders; Torsvik, Gaute - CESifo - 2013

So-called activation policies aiming at bringing jobless people into work have been a central component of welfare reforms across OECD countries during the last decades. Such policies combine restrictive and enabling programs, but their characteristic feature is that also enabling programs are...

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Price Discrimination in Input Markets: Quantity Discounts and Private Information

Herweg, Fabian; Müller, Daniel - CESifo - 2013

We consider a monopolistic supplier’s optimal choice of wholesale tariffs when downstream firms are privately informed about their retail costs. Under discriminatory pricing, downstream firms that differ in their ex ante distribution of retail costs are offered different tariffs. Under uniform...

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Donating Time or Money: Are they Substitutes or Complements?

Hartmann, Bastian; Werding, Martin - CESifo - 2012

a screening mechanism enabling donors to better assess the use that is made of the money they could contribute. We …

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Gift-Exchange, Incentives, and Heterogeneous Workers

Non, Arjan - CESifo - 2011

By incorporating reciprocity in an otherwise standard principal-agent model, I investigate the relation between monetary gift-exchange and incentive pay, while allowing for worker heterogeneity. I assume that some, but not all, workers care more for their principal when they are convinced that...

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Sticks and Carrots for the Alleviation of Long Term Poverty

Schroyen, Fred; Torsvik, Gaute - CESifo - 2002

. We find that the argument for using work requirements as a screening device is both strengthened and weakened with long …

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Venture Cycles: Theory and Evidence

Gehrig, Thomas; Stenbacka, Rune - CESifo - 2003

competing financiers undertake their screening decisions in an uncoordinated way, thereby highlighting the role of intertemporal … screening externalities induced by competition among venture capitalists as a structural source of instability. We show that … uncoordinated screening behavior of competing financiers is an independent source of fluctuations inducing venture investment cycles …

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