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Research

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״Look at situations from all angles,

and you will become more open״

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- Dalai Lama

Research Statement

Publications

On the Provision of Unemployment Insurance when Workers are ex-ante Heterogeneous


(Previously titled: "Who Cares about Unemployment Insurance?")
Joint with Yaniv Yedid-Levi
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020.

Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Monitoring


Quantitative Economics, 2019.

On the Asset Allocation of a Default Pension Fund

Joint with Magnus Dahlquist and Roine Vestman
Journal of Finance, 2018.
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Financial Risk and Unemployment

Joint with Zvi Eckstein and David Weiss


International Economic Review, 2018.

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From Unemployment Benefits to Unemployment Accounts - Reforming Unemployment Insurance in Israel


Joint with Ido Shlomo
Economic Quarterly (in Hebrew), 2018.

Unemployment Insurance and Unemployment Accounts: The Best of Both Worlds

Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017.
 

Optimal Design of 'Soft' Welfare Programs

Joint with Nicola Pavoni and Gianluca Violante
Review of Economic Dynamics, 2016.

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Universal Basic Income: Inspecting the Mechanisms

Joint with Nir Jaimovich, Itay Saporta-Eksten, and Yaniv Yedid-Levi,

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024.

Designing Pension Plans According to Consumption-Savings Theory

Joint with Kathrin Schlafmann and Roine Vestman

The Review of Financial Studies, 2024.

Working papers

Household Stock Market Participation: Learning from Pension Fund Asset Allocation

Joint with Ulf Nielsson, Oliver-Alexander Press, and Jesper Rangvid, 2025.

Older papers

© 2023 by Ofer Setty. 

Moral Hazard and Endogenous Monitoring

2016

Search and Work in Optimal Welfare Programs

Joint with Nicola Pavoni and Gianluca Violante, 2012.

© 2023 by Ofer Setty. 

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