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Carrot and Stick: How Reemployment Bonuses and Benefit Sanctions Affect Job Finding Rates

van der Klaauw, Bas; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

To increase their transition from welfare to work, benefit recipients in the municipality of Rotterdam were exposed to various financial incentives, including both carrots to sticks. Once their benefit spell exceeded one year, welfare recipients were entitled to a reemployment bonus if they...

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The Effect of Financial Rewards on Students' Achievements: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; van der Klaauw, Bas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper reports a randomized field experiment in which first year economics and business students at the University of Amsterdam could earn financial rewards for passing all first year requirements before the start of their second academic year. Participants were assigned to a high reward...

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Trade and Investment under Policy Uncertainty: Theory and Firm Evidence

Handley, Kyle; Limão, Nuno - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We provide theoretical and empirical evidence that policy uncertainty can significantly affect firm level investment … dynamic, heterogeneous firms model we show that: (i) investment and entry into export markets is reduced when trade policy is …

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Uncertainty and Trade Agreements

Limão, Nuno; Maggi, Giovanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

In this paper we explore the potential gains that a trade agreement (TA) can provide by regulating trade-policy uncertainty, in addition to the more standard gains from reducing the mean levels of trade barriers. We show that in a standard trade model with income-risk neutrality there tends to...

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The new empirical economics of management

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Scur, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across … recent work on management practices. Our preliminary results suggest that about a quarter of cross-country and within …-country TFP gaps can be accounted for by management practices. Management seems to matter both qualitatively and quantitatively …

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