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Unveiling shades of green food beyond labels : evidence from an online experiment to climate adaptation
Castaldo, Cecilia; Giaccherini, Matilde; Pallante, Giacomo - 2024
We investigate the role of information strategy in shifting the purchasing preferences of “green” organic consumers towards a subset of “greener” products that foster adaptation to climate change. We focus on organic pasta, a widely consumed food, to conduct field experiment that...
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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 …
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013411572
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Round-number effects in real estate prices : evidence from Germany
Englmaier, Florian; Roider, Andreas; Schlereth, Lars; … - 2023
with earlier findings, residential real estate transactions in Germany cluster at round-number prices, but there are also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014426542
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Consumption expenditures in Austria & Germany : new evidence based on transactional data
Koeniger, Winfried; Kress, Peter; Lehmann, Jonas - 2024
We analyze the novel transactional card expenditure data for Germany and Austria provided by Fable Data. We describe … lower-frequency information from external data sources. We find very similar expenditure patterns in Germany and Austria. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015077842
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Playing with the good guys : a public good game with endogenous group formation
Brekke, Kjell Arne; Hauge, Karen Evelyn; Lind, Jo Thori; … - 2009
In public good games, voluntary contributions tend to start off high and decline as the game is repeated. If high contributors are matched, however, contributions tend to stay high. We propose a formalization predicting that high contributors will self-select into groups committed to charitable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850332
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The political economy of sin taxes
Haavio, Markus; Kotakorpi, Kaisa Ilona - 2009
We analyse the determination of taxes on harmful goods when consumers have self-control problems. We show that under reasonable assumptions, the socially optimal corrective tax exceeds the average distortion caused by self-control problems. Further, we analyse how individuals with self-control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850338