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Boss, Alfred (contributor); Brown, Alessio J. G. (contributor) - 2007

We present a proposal for reforming unemployment assistance in Germany through the introduction of unemployment … of how such a system of UAs can be designed and implemented in Germany. To make the influence of UAs as transparent as …

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Beschäftigungskonten für Deutschland

Boss, Alfred; Brown, Alessio J. G.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007 - December 2007 (this revised version)

Wir präsentieren einen Vorschlag für die Neuausrichtung der Arbeitslosenunterstützung in Deutschland: die Einführung …. Wir stellen detailliert dar, wie ein solches System von Beschäftigungskonten in Deutschland ausgestaltet und implementiert …We present a proposal for reforming unemployment assistance in Germany through the introduction of unemployment …

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Incentives to work : the case of Germany

Boss, Alfred (contributor); Elendner, Thomas (contributor) - 2005

Based on a description of the German system of taxes and transfers, the incentives to work are analyzed for several groups of the labor force. The effects of the Hartz IVʺ reform (effective from 2005 onwards) on the incentives receive particular attention. It turns out that the marginal...

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Vorschläge zur Steuerreform in Deutschland : was bedeuten sie? : Was "kosten" sie?

Boss, Alfred (contributor); Elendner, Thomas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Price Setting with Menu Cost for Multi-Product Firms

Alvarez, Fernando - 2012

We model the decisions of a multi-product firm that faces a fixed "menu" cost: once it is paid, the firm can adjust the price of all its products. We characterize analytically the steady state firm's decisions in terms of the structural parameters: the variability of the flexible prices, the...

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Small and Large Price Changes and the Propagation of Monetary Shocks

Alvarez, Fernando - 2014

We document the presence of both small and large price changes in individual price records from the CPI in France and the US. After correcting for measurement error and cross-section heterogeneity, the size-distribution of price changes has a positive excess kurtosis. We propose an analytical...

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Monetary Shocks in Models with Inattentive Producers

Alvarez, Fernando - 2015

We study models where prices respond slowly to shocks because firms are rationally inattentive. Producers must pay a cost to observe the determinants of the current profit maximizing price, and hence observe them infrequently. To generate large real effects of monetary shocks in such a model the...

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