Optimal unemployment insurance in GE: A robust calibration approach

Economics Letters

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 28-31

  Cozzi, Marco ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Calibration methods; Heterogeneous agents; Incomplete markets; Optimal unemployment insurance; Unemployment risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861037979     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.04.066     Document Type: Article

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