Repeated Tax Amnesties

    Onursal Bagirgan. (UC3M). Repeated Tax Amnesties.   Attendance confirmation.

TBA

    Anna Houstecka. (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). Unemployment Insurance and Occupational Switching. Abstract: "In this paper, I study the relationship between unemployment benefits and occupational switching. Using US data, I document two new facts. First, unemployed individuals who are eligible to higher unemployment benefits are less likely to switch occupation. Second, I show that conditional on […]

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff

    Chiara Margaria. (Boston University). Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff.  Abstract: Motivated by the study of household dynamics, we analyze a stochastic partnership model with a view to determining how the mean duration of the partnership depends on the distribution of the partners' monetary earnings. Every period, the partners' preferences for each other are […]

Fiscal rules as Bargaining Chips

    Alessandro Riboni. (Ecole Polytechnique). Fiscal rules as Bargaining Chips. Attendance confirmation.