This paper investigates the effect of sanctions of unemployment insurance benefits on theexit rate from unemployment for a sample of Danish unemployed. According to the findingsare that even moderate sanctions have rather large effects...

We examine an incentive scheme for a group of agents, where all agents are rewarded ifthe group meets its target. If the group does not meet its target, only the agents that meettheir individual target are rewarded. In environmental policy, the EU burden sharingagreement and the UK Climate...

This paper is the rst to empirically analyze the value to shareholders of the power to havea binding vote on management pay. We nd that in response to an unanticipated eventthat made it likely that an annual binding vote would become compulsory for Swiss publiccompanies, the apparent immediate...

This paper explores the relationship between dynamic consistency and theexisting notions of unambiguous events for Choquet expected utility preferences.A decision maker is faced with an information structure represented bya filtration. We show that the decision maker’s preferences respect...

A central role for economic policy involves understanding and reducing the impact of unexpected,extreme events. In this paper, we develop a simple economic framework with latentregime switches. This framework explains why investors and policymakers can decide not tohedge against extreme events,...

A central role for economic policy involves reducing the incidence of systemic downturns,when key economic variables experience joint extreme events. In this paper,we empirically analyze such asymmetric dependence using two approaches, correlationsand copulas. We document four findings. First,...

Risikopolitik umfaßt die Gesamtheit aller Maßnahmen einer Bank, die darauf gerichtet sind, Risikoziele für die Bank zu formulieren und etwaige Gefahren einer Erfolgsminderung zu identifizieren, den Eintritt von Risiken zu verhindern oder die Auswirkungen evidenter Risiken abzuschwächen, um...

In der gegenwärtigen Diskussion um die Finanzierung kleiner und mittlererUnternehmen zeichnen sich zwei gegensätzliche Standpunkte ab. Der einewird durch die Besorgnis um eine Bedrohung der bankmäßigen Kreditfinanzierungmittelständischer Unternehmen markiert, insbesondere in Folge der...