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Does Mandatory Labeling of Genetically Modified Food Grant Consumers the Right to Know? Evidence from an Economic Experiment
Dannenberg, Astrid; Scatasta, Sara; Sturm, Bodo - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
Opponents of the voluntary labeling scheme for genetically modified (GM) food products often argue that consumers have …
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Is it Who You Ask or How You Ask? Findings of a Meta-Analysis on Genetically Modified Food Valuation Studies
Dannenberg, Astrid - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
This paper presents a meta-analysis of 46 primary studies reporting a total of 108 genetically modified food valuation … more than do sample characteristics. Moreover, consumer aversion to genetically modified food seems to have increased over … time. Previous findings are confirmed that consumer valuation strongly depends on the type of food product and varies among …
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The determinants of private flood mitigation measures in Germany: Evidence from a nationwide survey
Osberghaus, Daniel - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
Public flood protection cannot totally eliminate the risk of flooding. Hence, private mitigation measures which proactively protect homes from being flooded or reduce flood damage are an essential part of modern flood risk management. This study analyses private flood mitigation measures among...
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A vision of the European energy future? The impact of the German response to the Fukushima earthquake
Grossi, Luigi; Heim, Sven; Waterson, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
The German response to the Fukushima nuclear power plant incident was possibly the most significant change of policy towards nuclear power outside Japan, leading to a sudden and very significant shift in the underlying power generation structure in Germany. This provides a very useful natural...
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Terms-of-trade and the funding of adaptation to climate change and variability: An empirical analysis
Schenker, Oliver; Stephan, Gunter - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
This paper analyses the interplay between international trade, regional adaptation and North-to-South transfers for funding adaptation within the framework of a dynamic computable gen-eral equilibrium model, where impacts of climate change depend on changes in precipitation and temperature. If...
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International trade and the adaptation to climate change and variability
Stephan, Gunter; Schenker, Oliver - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
This paper has three messages mainly, which are observed in a simple model of climate change, international trade and regional adaptation. First, trade can be viewed as a kind of adaptation to climate change and variability, as trade can help to reduce direct impacts of global climate change on...
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Elasticity of substitution between clean and dirty energy inputs: A macroeconomic perspective
Papageorgiou, Chris; Saam, Marianne; Schulte, Patrick - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Recently Acemolgu, Aghion, Bursztyn and Hemous (AER 2012) formulated a model in which a high macroeconomic elasticity of substitution between clean and dirty production represents a crucial condition for green growth. Until now it has never been systematically estimated. Using a novel panel of...
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Implications of inequality aversion for international climate policy
Vogt, Carsten; Sturm, Bodo - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
In this paper, we extend the Fehr and Schmidt model of inequality aversion to a situation where the players differ with respect to their benefits and costs from contributions to a non-linear public good. A necessary condition for contributing to the public good is that the players' benefit...
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Coordination under threshold uncertainty in a public goods game
Dannenberg, Astrid; Löschel, Andreas; Paolacci, Gabriele; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
We explored experimentally how threshold uncertainty affects coordination success in a threshold public goods game. Whereas all groups succeeded in providing the public good when the exact value of the threshold was known, uncertainty was generally detrimental for the public good provision. The...
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General knowledge about climate change, factors influencing risk perception and willingness to insure
Menny, Claas; Osberghaus, Daniel; Pohl, Max; Werner, Ute - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
In two empirical surveys in Germany the link between the information respondents have about climate change and their risk perception of the phenomenon was analysed. We found that a better understanding of the effects of climate change might lead to a decrease of the perceived hazard. In...
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