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Why is there a spike in the job finding rate at benefit exhaustion?

Boone, Jan; Ours, Jan C. van - 2009

Putting a limit on the duration of unemployment benefits tends to introduce a spikeʺ in the job finding rate shortly before benefits are exhausted. Current theories explain this spike from workers’ behavior. We present a theoretical model in which also the nature of the job matters....

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Inside post-socialist courts : the determinants of adjudicatory outcomes in Slovenian commercial disputes

Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina; Grajzl, Peter; Zajc, Katarina - 2014

two decades after the start of transition in Slovenia, the judicial system is still a source of legal inconsistency and …

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Debt recovery in firm liquidations : do liquidation trustees matter?

Cepec, Jaka; Grajzl, Peter; Zajc, Katarina - 2016

of the liquidation proceedings. To this end, we draw on a novel dataset of firm liquidations from Slovenia and exploit …

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Trade, wages, and profits

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Kreickemeier, Udo - 2012

This paper formulates a structural empirical model of heterogeneous firms whose workers exhibit fair-wage preferences, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of the model in a data-set of five European...

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Beyond Balassa and Samuelson : real convergence, capital flows, and competitiveness in Greece

Belke, Ansgar; Haskamp, Ulrich; Schnabl, Gunther; … - 2015

We scrutinize the role of capital flows for competitiveness in seven euro-area countries in the context of real convergence and crisis with a specific focus on Greece. The paper extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model to include international capital markets. Capital flows are assumed to be...

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Privatization in Italy 1993-2002 : goals, institutions, outcomes, and outstanding issues

Goldstein, Andrea - 2003

This paper describes the privatization program in Italy during the 1990s and puts that policy in the context of … attempts at privatization of the 1980s, delaying until 1992 the start of largescale privatizations. These were imposed on … analysis of the consequences of privatization on corporate governance show that, notwithstanding considerable changes in the …

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Voter support for privatizing education : evidence on self-interest and ideology

Merzyn, Wolfram; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2003

Economic theory advances various arguments in favor of and against privatizing education. In this paper we investigate the extent to which these arguments influence voters opinions. We analyze two popular referenda in which some 400,000 voters in two Swiss cantons expressed their opinions on the...

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External constraints matter for privatizations

Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2014

We present an analysis of the share of public ownership in the product market in the OECD countries from 1974 to 2007. Despite much has been said on the broad topic of reforms and regulation, a sector-specific insight is missing. We replicate the analysis of Galasso (2014) by sector of activity...

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Privatising network industries

Newbery, David M. G. - 2004

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Privatization in Austria : some theoretical reasons and first results about the privatization proceeds

Belke, Ansgar; Schneider, Friedrich - 2004

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