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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...

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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...

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The circular economy

Fullerton, Don - 2024

Research about the circular economy is dominated by engineers, architects, and social scientists in fields other than economics. The concepts they study can be useful in economic models of policies – to reduce virgin materials extraction, to encourage green design, and to make better use of...

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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...

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Economic-social interaction in China

Lindbeck, Assar (contributor) - 2008

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Learning abatement costs : on the dynamics of optimal regulation of experience goods

Hintermann, Beat; Lange, Andreas - 2012

We study the introduction of new technologies when their costs are subject to idiosyncratic uncertainty and can only be fully learned through individual experience. We set up a dynamic model of clean experience goods that replace old polluting consumption options and show how optimal regulation...

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Corrective taxation for curbing pollution and promoting green product design and recycling

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2000

In this paper we consider a competitive economy with flows of materials from extraction via recycling to landfilling which exhibits distortions due to pollution, external landfilling costs and inefficient product design. The allocative impact of tax-subsidy policies aiming at internalizing the...

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The sustainability of Chinese growth and the aggregate factor substitution elasticity

Whalley, John; Xing, Chunbing - 2012

than below one. We use time series data on labor's share in GDP to estimate a substitution elasticity for China, finding … role of factor substitution in future Chinese growth. We argue that high growth in China can be supported in such a … sustainability of high Chinese growth. -- China ; growth ; sustainability ; substitution elasticity …

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Achieving sustainable energy security : 2030 outlook for ASEAN, People Republic of China and India

Fan, Ying; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2015

The rapid growth of ASEAN economies, the People's Republic of China and India (called ACI henceforth) - major drivers …

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The environmental and macroeconomic effects of socially responsible investment

Dam, Lammertjan (contributor); Heijdra, Ben J. (contributor) - 2008

We analyze the effects of socially responsible investment and public abatement on environmental quality and the economy in a continuous-time dynamic growth model featuring optimizing households and firms. Environmental quality is modelled as a renewable resource. Consumers can invest in...

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