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Fairness Concerns in Environmental Economics - Do They Really Matter and If So How?

Johansson-Stenman, Olof; Konow, James - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

Are fairness concerns of relevance to environmental economics and, if so, are they sufficiently structured to improve … analysis in this field? On both of these questions, we answer in the affirmative, arguing that people’s fairness views are … and apply the principles. The fairness rules analyzed are accountability (i.e., rewards that are proportional to …

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Is Fairness Blind? - The effect of framing on preferences for effort-sharing rules

Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

By using a choice experiment, this paper focuses on citizens’ preferences for effort-sharing rules of how carbon …

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Attitudes to Personal Carbon Allowances

Andersson, David; Löfgren, Åsa; Widerberg, Anna - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011

perceived fairness of the allocation of allowances and corresponding redistribution of wealth, as well as the perceived …

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A Fair Share : Burden-Sharing Preferences in the United States and China

Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Krupnick, Alan; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

Using a choice experiment, we investigated preferences for distributing the economic burden of decreasing CO2 emissions …

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Attitudes to Personal Carbon Allowances: The effect of trust in politicians, perceived fairness and ideology

Jagers, Sverker C.; Löfgren, Åsa; Stripple, Johannes - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

fairness and ideology, respectively. We also analyse the relation between the respective attitudes towards an increase in the …

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Preferences for redistribution - a cross-country study in fairness

Isaksson, Ann-Sofie; Lindskog, Annika - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2007

self interest concerns, and an input based concept of fairness captured by the effects of beliefs about the causes of …

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Are Most People Consequentialists?

Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

Welfare economics relies on consequentialism. Whether a public action is good or bad is then determined by the consequences for people, rather than for example by the extent to which it infringes on others’ rights. Yet, many philosophers have questioned this assumption. The present note...

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The Willingness to Pay-Willingness to Accept Gap Revisited: The Role of Emotions and Moral Satisfaction

Biel, Anders; Johansson-Stenman, Olof; Nilsson, Andreas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011

perceptions. The results from a real-money dichotomous-choice experiment, combined with measurements of emotions and morality, are …

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Animal Welfare and Social Decisions

Aronsson, Thomas; Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011

This paper analyzes the standard welfare economics assumption of anthropocentric welfarism, i.e., that only human well-being counts intrinsically. Alternatives where animal welfare matters intrinsically are explored theoretically, based on moral philosophical literature, and empirically where...

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Environmental Policy when People's Preferences are Inconsistent, Non-Welfaristic, or simply Not Developed

Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2001

This paper discusses how a benevolent policy maker should act based on some, possibly non-welfaristic,ethical principle in cases where people's preferences are not perfectly informed,consistent and fully developed with regard to all goods, including all kinds of environmental goods, as is...

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