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Do markets erode social responsibility?
Bartling, Björn; Weber, Roberto A. - 2013
This paper studies the stability of socially responsible behavior in markets. We develop a laboratory product market in which low-cost production creates a negative externality for third parties, but where alternative production with higher costs entirely mitigates the externality. Our data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212675
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Trust, Happiness, and pro-social behavior
Carattini, Stefano; Roesti, Matthias - 2020
This paper combines several large-scale surveys with different identification strategies to shed new light on the determinants of cooperative behavior. We provide evidence indicating that the well-being maximizing level of trust is above the income maximizing level. Higher trust is also linked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012288022
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Environmental policy with green consumerism
Ambec, Stefan; De Donder, Philippe - 2020
Is green consumerism beneficial to the environment and the economy? To shed light on this question, we study the political economy of environmental regulations in a model with neutral and green consumers where the latter derive some warm glow from buying a good of higher environmental quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257796
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Works councils and environmental investment : theory and evidence from German panel data
Askildsen, Jan Erik; Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephan C. - 2002
Firms may underinvest in local environmental protection even from the private viewpoint of its owners and employees, but works councils may help mitigate this problem. We show that increases in environmental investments when councils are present could be employee-led, firm-led, or jointly-led....
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Conspicuous consumption and communism : evidence from East and West Germany
Friehe, Tim; Mechtel, Mario - 2012
use the separation of Germany into the communist GDR and the democratic FRG and its reunification in 1990 as a natural … experiment. Relying on household data that are representative for Germany, our empirical results strongly indicate that … conspicuous consumption is relatively more important in East Germany. Importantly, a significant gap in conspicuous consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621765
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Defaults and donations : evidence from a field experiment
Altmann, Steffen; Falk, Armin; Heidhues, Paul; … - 2014
We study how website defaults affect consumer behavior in the domain of charitable giving. In a field experiment that was conducted on a large platform for making charitable donations over the web, we exogenously vary the default options in two distinct choice dimensions. The first pertains to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462640
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Buying control? : "locus of control" and the uptake of supplementary health insurance
Bonsang, Eric; Costa-Font, Joan; New, Sonja C. de - 2021
. Drawing on longitudinal data from Germany, we find robust evidence that individuals having an internal LOC are more likely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012607206
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Who bears the burden of real estate transfer taxes? : evidence from the German housing market
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Krolage, Carla; … - 2021
This paper examines the effects of real estate transfer taxes (RETT) on property prices using a rich micro dataset of roughly 17 million German properties for the period from 2005 to 2019. We exploit a 2006 constitutional reform that allows states to set their own RETT rates, leading to frequent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012417752
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Low homeownership in Germany : a quantitative exploration
Kaas, Leo; Kocharkov, Georgi; Preugschat, Edgar; … - 2017
The homeownership rate in Germany is one of the lowest among advanced economies. To better understand this fact, we … analyze the role of three specific policies which discourage homeownership in Germany: an extensive social housing sector with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761605
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The future of work and consumption in cities after the pandemic : evidence from Germany
Alipour, Jean-Victor; Falck, Oliver; Krause, Simon; … - 2022
We estimate the impact of Covid-induced working from home (WFH) on offline consumer spending in urban agglomerations. Our analysis draws on postcode-level data on card transactions and WFH patterns in major German cities between January 2019 and May 2022. We address endogeneity in WFH uptake by...
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