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The Effect of Sanctions on the Job Finding Rate:Evidence from Denmark

Svarer, Michael - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

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... …

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Specious Confidence after Tax Audits: A Contribution to theDynamics of Compliance

Kirchler, Erich; Maciejovsky, Boris; Schwarzenberger, … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2003

Dynamics of compliance, depending on audit probability, sanctions, and the time lagbetween audits, are investigated in … afterwards, especially if audits were frequent and sanctions high. …

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Group rewards and individual sanctions inenvironmental policy

Dijkstra, Bouwe R.; Rübbelke, Dirk T.G. - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2007

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...

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Committing to Incentives: Should the Decision to Sanctionbe Revealed or Hidden?

Klempt, Charlotte; Pull, Kerstin - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010

Sanctions are widely used to promote compliance in principal-agent-relationships.While there is ample evidence … confirming the predicted positive incentive effect of sanctions,it has also been shown that imposing sanctions may in fact reduce … are restricted to situations where principals ex antereveal their decision to sanction low compliance.[...] …

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When, How Fast and by How Much do Trade Costs change in the Euro Area?

Herwartz, Helmut; Weber, Henning - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2008

Microfoundations of the euro´s effect on euro area trade hinge on the timing, thespeed and the size of adjustment in trade costs. We estimate timing, speed and sizeof adjustment in trade costs for sectoral trade data. Our approach allows for sectorspecific impacts of trade costs on sectoral...

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Trade Flows, Multilateral Resistance and FirmHeterogeneity

Behar, Alberto; Nelson, Benjamin D. - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2009

We present a gravity model that accounts for multilateral resistance, firm heterogeneity and country-selectioninto trade, while accommodating asymmetries in trade flows. A new equation for the proportion of exportingfirms takes a gravity form: the extensive margin is also accected by...

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TRADE SPECIALISATION AND ECONOMIC CONVERGENCE:EVIDENCE FROM TWO EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

Rault, Christophe; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Robert - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2009

This paper analyses trade specialisation dynamics in two Eastern European countries(Romania and Bulgaria – EEC-2) vis-à-vis the core EU member states (EU-15) over theperiod 1990-2006. Specifically, we focus on whether there is a shift towards intra-industrytrade leading to economic...

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Is There An Informal Employment Wage Penalty?Evidence from South Africa

Badaoui, Eliane; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We estimate the wage penalty associated with working in the South African informal sector.To this end we use a rich data set on non-self employed males that allows one to accuratelydistinguish workers employed in the informal sector from those employed in the formal sectorand link individuals...

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Public Goods Provision and Sanctioning inPrivileged Groups

Reuben, Ernesto; Riedl, Arno - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

In public good provision, privileged groups enjoy the advantage that some of its membersfind it optimal to supply a positive amount of the public good. However, their inherentasymmetric nature may make the enforcement of cooperative behavior through informalsanctioning harder to accomplish...

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Retributive Responses

Güth, Werner; Kliemt, Hartmut; Ockenfels, Axel - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2002

Retributive responses do play a role in human behavior. Whether they are primarily triggered by supposed intentions or by observed consequences of actions is an important question. It can be addressed by experimental studies of retributive responses in situations in which the individual actor my...

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