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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.

Older papers

Moral Hazard and Endogenous Monitoring

2016

Search and Work in Optimal Welfare Programs

Joint with Nicola Pavoni and Gianluca Violante, 2012.

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