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Quantifying consumer taste in trade : evidence from the food industry
Aw, Bee-yan; Lee, Yi; Vandenbussche, Hylke - 2023
This paper develops an empirical model of consumer taste in twenty-nine Belgium food industries for the period from … substantial taste heterogeneity in food exports across destination countries. Overall, in the large majority of food exports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013494393
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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
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Animal welfare, moral consumers and the optimal regulation of animal food production
Eichner, Thomas; Runkel, Marco - 2022
low quality of animal food. Correction of this market failure is attained by taxing animal food output and subsidizing … animal food quality. With consumer and producer heterogeneity, regulation is the same but sector-specific, with a more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472429
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Trade and tasks : an exploration over three decades in Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2014
This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464704
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The power of a bad example : a field experiment in household garbage disposal
Dur, Robert A. J.; Vollaard, Ben A. - 2014
Field-experimental studies have shown that people litter more in more littered environments. Inspired by these findings, many cities around the world have adopted policies to quickly remove litter. While such policies may prevent people from following the bad example of litterers, they may also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344850
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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...
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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