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Professor Camille Landais

Professor Camille Landais

Professor of Economics and Public Economics Programme Director

Telephone:
+44 (0)20 7955 7864
Email:
c.landais@lse.ac.uk
Links:
Public Economics
Hub for Equal Representation

Latest

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar
Retirement Consumption and Pension Design

24 February 2021

Camille Landais (LSE)

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CEP Labour Markets Workshop
Retirement Consumption and Optimal Pension Design

01 December 2020

Camille Landais (LSE)

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CEP discussion papers
Subsidizing labor hoarding in recessions: the employment and welfare effects of short time work

03 December 2018

Giulia Giupponi and Camille Landais

The Great Recession has seen a revival of interest in policies encouraging labor hoarding by firms. Short time work (STW) policies, which consist in offering subsidies for hours reductions to workers in firms experiencin... Read more...
Journal article
A Macroeconomic Approach to Optimal Unemployment Insurance: Applications

01 May 2018

Camille Landais, Pascal Michaillat and Emmanuel Saez

In the United States, unemployment insurance (UI) is more generous when unemployment is high. This paper examines whether this policy is desirable. The optimal UI replacement rate is the Baily-Chetty replacement rate plu... Read more...
CEP discussion papers
Risk-based selection in unemployment insurance: evidence and implications

16 October 2017

Camille Landais, Arash Nekoei, Peter Nilsson, David Seim and Johannes Spinnewijn

This paper studies whether adverse selection can rationalize a universal mandate for unemployment insurance (UI). Building on a unique feature of the unemployment policy in Sweden, where workers can opt for supplemental ... Read more...
Public Economics Programme Discussion Papers
Risk-based Selection in Unemployment Insurance: Evidence and Implications

10 October 2017

Camille Landais, Arash Nekoei, Peter Nilsson, David Seim and Johannes Spinnewijn

This paper studies whether adverse selection can rationalize a universal mandate for unemployment insurance (UI). Building on a unique feature of the unemployment policy in Sweden, where workers can opt for supplemental ... Read more...
IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar
The Optimal Timing of Unemployment Benefits: Theory and Evidence from Sweden

11 November 2015

Camille Landais (LSE)

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CEP discussion papers
The optimal timing of UI benefits: theory and evidence from Sweden

08 July 2015

Jonas Kolsrud, Camille Landais, Peter Nilsson and Johannes Spinnewijn

This paper provides a simple, yet general framework to analyze the optimal time profile of benefits during the unemployment spell. We derive simple sufficient-statistics formulae capturing the insurance value and incenti... Read more...
Public Economics Programme Discussion Papers
The Optimal Timing of Unemployment Benefits: Theory and Evidence from Sweden

03 July 2015

Jonas Kolsrud, Camille Landais, Peter Nilsson and Johannes Spinnewijn

This paper provides a simple, yet general framework to analyze the optimal time profile of benefits during the unemployment spell. We derive simple sufficient-statistics formulae capturing the insurance value and incenti... Read more...
Public Economics Programme Discussion Papers
Assessing theWelfare Effects of Unemployment Benefits Using the Regression Kink Design

01 July 2012

Camille Landais

I investigate in this paper partial equilibrium labor supply responses to unemployment insurance (UI) in the US. I use administrative data on the universe of unemployment spells in five states from 1976 to 1984, and non-... Read more...
Public Economics Programme Discussion Papers
Taxation and International Migration of Superstars: Evidence from the European Football Market

01 February 2012

Henrik Kleven, Camille Landais and Emmanuel Saez

This paper analyzes the effects of top earnings tax rates on the international migration of top football players in Europe. We construct a panel data set of top earnings tax rates, football player careers, and club perfo... Read more...
CEP discussion papers
Optimal Unemployment Insurance Over the Business Cycle

21 September 2011

Camille Landais, Pascal Michaillat and Emmanuel Saez

This paper characterizes optimal unemployment insurance (UI) over the business cycle using a model of equilibrium unemployment in which jobs are rationed in recession. It offers a simple optimal UI formula that can be ap... Read more...

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