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Did the Japanese patient follow the doctor's orders? Mostly no! A public choice analysis of greenhouse gas emissions trading schemes in Japan before and after the earthquake
Rudolph, Sven; Schneider, Friedrich - 2011
The Great Tôhoku-Earthquake and the following nuclear meltdown in Fukushima called the world's attention to Japans' energy and climate policy. Japan is one of the biggest emitters of greenhouses gases in the world and still far away from reaching its Kyoto target. Emissions trading systems have...
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The Effect of Social Distancing Measures on the Demand for Intensive Care: Evidence on COVID-19 in Scandinavia
Juranek, Steffen; Zoutman, Floris - 2020
Understanding the effectiveness of social distancing on the spread of COVID-19 is crucial to justify economically costly social distancing measures. We present a case study focusing on the three Scandinavian countries. Whereas Denmark and Norway imposed relatively strict measures, Sweden follows...
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Two-Sided Platforms and Biases in Technology Adoption
Choi, Jay Pil - 2020
We investigate the relationship between market structure and platforms' incentives to adopt technological innovations in two-sided markets, where platforms may find it optimal to charge zero price on the consumer side and to extract surplus on the advertising side. We consider innovations that...
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Epidemic Exposure, Fintech Adoption, and the Digital Divide
Saka, Orkun; Eichengreen, Barry; Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2021
We ask whether epidemic exposure leads to a shift in financial technology usage within and across countries and if so who participates in this shift. We exploit a dataset combining Gallup World Polls and Global Findex surveys for some 250,000 individuals in 140 countries, merging them with...
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Social Capital and Crises with an Application to Iceland
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2015
Economic growth is propelled in part by the accumulation of different kinds of capital, including social capital in its several guises. This paper considers the interplay between financial crises and various aspects of social capital which, if it is allowed to depreciate, can undermine economic...
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How Trust in Social Dilemmas Evolves with Age
Kocher, Martin G. - 2015
While trust and trustworthiness provide a fundamental foundation for human relationships, little is known about how … the World Values Survey to address a potential connection between trust and age. In this chapter, we will mainly focus on … trusting and trustworthy behavior elicited with the use of the seminal trust game (Berg et al., 1995) and with games …
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Conditional Cooperation and Betrayal Aversion
Cubitt, Robin P.; Gaechter, Simon; Quercia, Simone - 2015
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about the contributions of others; and we measure betrayal aversion for different categories of subject....
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The Power of Religious Organizations in Human Decision Processes: Analyzing Voting Behavior
Torgler, Benno; Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco - 2013
In Switzerland, two key church institutions - the Conference of Swiss Bishops (CSB) and the Federation of Protestant Churches (FPC) - make public recommendations on how to vote for certain referenda. We leverage this unique situation to directly measure religious organizations' power to shape...
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Measuring Individual Risk Attitudes in the Lab: Task or Ask? An Empirical Comparison
Lönnqvist, Jan-Erik; Verkasalo, Markku; Walkowitz, Gari; … - 2014
the lab - here the amount sent in a trust game (Berg, Dickaut, McCabe, 1995). As it turns out, the measures themselves are …. Moreover, with respect to behaviour in the trust game, we find a high re-test stability of transfers (p = .70). This further …
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Early-life Circumstances Predict Measures of Trust among Adults: Evidence from Hunger Episodes in Post-War Germany
Hörl, Maximiliane; Kesternich, Iris; Smith, James P.; … - 2016
Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and … regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure with measures of trust using data from a nationally … significantly lower levels of trust as adults. This finding highlights that early-life experiences can have long-term effects in …
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