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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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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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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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This paper summarizes assumptions made and results obtained in parts of the literature on welfare and sustainability … combinations. This taxonomy is used to organize results in welfare and sustainability accounting. The analysis illustrates how …
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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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-related structural change, and labor demand as a highly reactive decision parameter is an ideal measure to detect employment adjustments …
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Evaluating the sustainability of a society requires a system of shadow or accounting values derived from the … sustainability objective. As a first step toward the derivation of such shadow values for a maximin objective, this paper studies an … genuine savings and the sustainability prospects of future generations. …
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. This paper investigates the relationship among current consumption, sacrifice, and sustainability improvement in a general … sustainability improvement. It is called durable savings to distinguish it from genuine savings, usually computed with discounted …
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specifically on their degree of success, notably in terms of fiscal sustainability. The "need" to consolidate is based on having a … primary balance above or below the debt-stabilizing primary balance (provided by the IMF's Debt Sustainability Analysis) for … each country. We then link the need for and the actual (historical) existence of fiscal adjustments to their sustainability …
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that equally poor households spend the same proportion of their incomes on food. Compared with official estimates, we find …
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