Marica Valente. (DIW Berlin).   Changing the incentive to pollute: Heterogeneous effects of waste pricing policies. Abstract The externalities of household waste generation and treatment can be internalized with policies pricing unsorted waste disposal known as Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT). To internalize pollution externalities of municipal waste, Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT) pricing of unsorted waste are adopted […]

Repeated Tax Amnesties

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

Unemployment Insurance and Occupational Switching

    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 […]