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Unemployment, segregation, and the structure of cities

Heuermann, Daniel F.; Vom Berge, Philipp - 2024

We examine the residential segregation of workers and the unemployed in the 80 largest cities in Germany. Drawing on a large set of geo-referenced data for the period from 2000 until 2015, we are able to study the within-city distribution of unemployment in unprecedented detail. We document a...

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Healthcare appointments as commitment devices

Derksen, Laura; Kerwin, Jason; Reynoso, Natalia Ordaz; … - 2024

We show that ordinary appointments can act as effective substitutes for hard commitment devices and increase demand for a critical healthcare service, particularly among those with self-control problems. We show this using an experiment that randomly offered HIV testing appointments and hard...

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Long-run inflation-unemployment dynamics : the Spanish Phillips curve and economic policy

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

This paper takes a new look at the long-run dynamics of inflation and unemployment in response to permanent changes in the growth rate of the money supply. We examine the Phillips curve from the perspective of what we call "frictional growth", i.e. the interaction between money growth and...

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Does policy communication during COVID-19 work?

Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2020

Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households' expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in the Nielsen Homescan panel with different combinations...

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Current emotion research in economics

Wälde, Klaus; Moors, Agnes - 2016

Positive and negative feelings were central to the development of economics, especially in utility theory in classical … economics. While neoclassical utility theory ignored feelings, behavioral economics more recently reintroduced feelings in … utility theory. Beyond feelings, economic theorists use full-fledged specific emotions to explain behavior that otherwise …

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