Nikolas Mittag : How Does Potential Unemployment Insurance Benefit Duration Affect Re-employment Timing and Wages? (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

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Recent papers use models of job search to interpret quasi-experiments with heterogeneity in order to understand the effects of unemployment insurance and potential benefit duration (PBD), but disagree...

Michal Bauer: Religious Leaders, Pro-sociality and Clusters of (In)Tolerance (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

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In this paper, we test the idea that religious leaders play a central role in shaping pro-sociality and religious (in)tolerance within their churches. Using controlled allocation tasks, we directly elicit...

Vittorio Larocca: Stochastic Cooperation of Non-Mutually Dependent Sellers (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

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We consider the strategic interaction between two sellers facing demand of different customers who are related by a one-sided externality: only the price of one seller affects the other seller’s demand....

Tomáš Holub: Inflační perioda: Stylizovaná fakta, příčiny a lekce z pohledu centrálního bankéře (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

10:00

Nedávná inflační vlna zvedla inflaci vysoko nad cíle centrální bank. Bývalé transformující se ekonomiky měly (ne)překvapivě vyšší růst cenové hladiny než ostatní země EU. Co stálo za nedávnou inflační...

Doris Weichselbaumer: Parental Leave and Discrimination on the Labor Market (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

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Jakub Cerveny: Financial incentives and COVID-19 vaccinations: Evidence from a conditional cash transfer program (Seminář z cyklu HEPII)

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This paper investigates the effects of a nation-wide conditional cash transfer program aimed to increase COVID-19 vaccination in Slovakia. Due to relatively low vaccination rates and overcrowding of hospitals...

Anthony Lepinteur: Reversing the Reversal? A Systematic Reassessment and Meta Analysis of Wellbeing Research (Seminář z cyklu MUES)

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Fierce debate over the feasibility of cardinally measuring utility – or ‘wellbeing’ – with surveys has recently resurfaced. Several prominent papers claimed that when interpreting survey data as strictly...

Michele Cantarella : Heterogeneous treatment and risk-taking biases in medication choices (Seminář z cyklu HEPII)

14:00

In this paper we study treatment-taking responses to four different medication choices across four different classes of risk. We find that, in general, individuals are rational and prefer treatments with...