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In the intensifying public debate about limiting the harmful effects of climate change, many global corporations have recently articulated so-called “net-zero” goals for reducing and ultimately eliminating their own greenhouse gas emissions. We first examine the details ofthe carbon...
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We examine whether a disclosure mandate for greenhouse gas emissions creates stakeholder pressure for firms to subsequently reduce their emissions. For UK-incorporated listed firms such a mandate was adopted in 2013. Using a difference-in-differences design, we find that firms affected by the...
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Although information and communication technologies (ICT) consume energy themselves, they are considered to have the …
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The ongoing digital transformation has raised hopes for ICT-based climate protection within manufacturing industries, such as dematerialized products and energy efficiency gains. However, ICT also consume energy as well as resources, and detrimental effects on the environment are increasingly...
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Arguing that in the real world relatively optimistic inexperienced investors are prey for relatively pessimistic veteran traders, we formalize this intuitive conjecture as a proven proposition in a simple model. This agreement to disagree leads to a perpetual bubble, in which more experienced,...
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In the Solidarity game lucky winners of a lottery can transfer part of their income to unlucky losers. Will losers get smaller transfers if they can be assumed to be responsible for their zero income because they have chosen riskier lotteries? Or will risk-lovers and riskaverters favor those who...
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Informal exchange of information among competitors has been well-documented in a variety of industries, and one …'s expectation of reciprocity shown to be a key determinant. We use an indeterminate horizon centipede game to establish a feedback … stronger effect on information ows than reducing environmental uncertainty (about the competitor's ability). We further show …
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Despite the importance for socio-economic outcomes, there is an ongoing debate about the stability of personality traits over the life cycle. By disentangling age, period and cohort influences on personality traits, this paper adds to the existing empirical contributions, which often focus on...
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We study how framing interplays with information design. Whereas Sender conceives all contingencies separately … first decides whether to refine Receiver’s frame and then designs an information structure for the chosen frame. Sender … faces a trade-off between keeping Receiver under the coarse frame — thus concealing part of the information structure — and …
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