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 …

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... …

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. …

appropriate level of job search activity, and by imposing sanctions for infractions. Empirical studies consistently show that job … search monitoring and benefit sanctions reduce unemployment duration and increase job entry in the short term. There is some … evidence that longer-term effects of benefit sanctions may be negative. …

The conflict between Russia and Ukraine that started in March 2014 resulted in bilateral economic sanctions imposed by … Russia and Western countries, including the members of the euro area (EA). The paper investigates the impact of sanctions on … the real side of the economy of Russia and the EA. Using an index that measures intensity of sanctions the effects of …