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The Effect of Power Outages and Cheap Talk on Willingness to Pay to Reduce Outages
Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter; Akay, Alpaslan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Using an open-ended contingent valuation survey, we analyze how (i) experience of a power outage due to one of the worst storms ever to hit Sweden and (ii) a cheap talk script affect respondents' WTP to avoid power outages. Experience significantly increases and a cheap talk script decreases the...
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Do All Material Incentives for Prosocial Activities Backfire? The Response to Cash and Non-Cash Incentives for Blood Donations
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Experimental studies document that financial rewards discourage the performance of altruistic activities, because they destroy intrinsic altruistic motivations. We set up a randomized-controlled experiment, through a survey administered to 467 blood donors in an Italian town, and find that...
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Will There Be Blood? Incentives and Substitution Effects in Pro-social Behavior
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario; Slonim, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We examine how economic incentives affect pro-social behavior through the analysis of a unique dataset with information … incentives in a "standard" way; offering donors economic incentives significantly increases turnout and blood units collected … come to a drive but are ineligible to donate when incentives are offered. Further evidence from a small-scale field …
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Motivating Altruism: A Field Study
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper analyzes the effects of a legislative provision that grants a one-day paid leave of absence to blood donors who are employees in Italy. The analysis is based on a unique dataset with the complete donation histories of the blood donors in an Italian town. The cross-sectional variation...
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Social Image Concerns and Pro-Social Behavior
Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Using longitudinal data on the entire population of blood donors in an Italian town, we examine how donors respond to an award scheme which rewards them with “medals” when they reach certain donation quotas. Our results indicate that donors significantly increase the frequency of their...
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Estimation of Productivity in Korean Electric Power Plants: A Semiparametric Smooth Coefficient Model
Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal C.; Sun, Kai - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyzes the impact of load factor, facility and generator types on the productivity of Korean electric power plants. In order to capture important differences in the effect of load policy on power output, we use a semiparametric smooth coefficient (SPSC) model that allows us to model...
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Survey of Models on Demand, Customer Base-Line and Demand Response and Their Relationships in the Power Market
Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated … the growing literature on models used to study demand, consumer baseline (CBL) and demand response in the electricity … case for possible application to the electricity market and discusses the implications of the results. In the literature …
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Estimating the Size of External Effects of Energy Subsidies
Commander, Simon; Nikoloski, Zlatko; Vagliasindi, Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
It is widely accepted that the costs of under-pricing energy are large, whether in advanced or developing countries. This paper explores how large these costs can be by focussing on the size of the external effects that energy subsidies in particular generate in two important sectors –...
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Electricity Prices, River Temperatures and Cooling Water Scarcity
McDermott, Grant R.; Nilsen, Øivind Anti - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
increased river temperatures on German electricity prices from 2002 to 2009. Having controlled for demand effects, the results … indicate that the electricity price is significantly impacted by both a change in river temperatures and the relative abundance … of river water. An implication is that future climate change will affect electricity prices not only through changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757339
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How ICT Investment and Energy Use Influence the Productivity of Korean Industries
Khayyat, Nabaz T.; Lee, Jongsu; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This empirical study examines changes in industrial productivity in Korea between 1980 and 2009, focusing on how investment in information and communication technology (ICT) and energy use, influence productivity levels. A dynamic factor demand model is applied in order to link inter-temporal...
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