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Do EPA administrators recommend environmental policies that citizens want?
Carlsson, Frederik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina - 2009
administrators working at the Swedish EPA. The experiment concerns two environmental quality objectives: a Balanced Marine … asked the administrators to motivate their choices in the experiment, and the main motive was ecological sustainability …. -- Choice experiment ; environmental policy ; administrators ; citizens ; environmental objectives. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887131
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Dealing with ignored attributes in choice experiments on valuation of Sweden’s environmental quality objectives
Carlsson, Frederik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina - 2009
Using a choice experiment, this paper investigates how Swedish citizens value three environmental quality objectives … attributes they claimed to have ignored. -- Choice experiment ; environmental quality objectives ; follow-up question ; ignoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003905738
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Trade patterns and the ecological footprint a theory-based empirical approach
Dam, Thi Anh; Pasche, Markus; Werlich, Niclas - 2017
With global specialization and trade, countries make directly but also indirectly use of the environment via traded goods. Based on the theory of comparative advantages, the Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek approach, we are using the Ecological Footprint as a broad measure of environmental use because its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637772
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What drives biodiversity? : an empirical assessment of the relation between biodiversity and the economy
Freytag, Andreas; Vietze, Christoph; Völkl, Wolfgang - 2009
The environmental discussion is increasingly extended to the question of how to preserve biodiversity. As sensible regulation of biodiversity utilization uses politically set incentive schemes, it is required to discus the monetary value of biodiversity. Consequently, the relation between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824148
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The role of preferences in disagreements over scientific hypothesis : an empirical inquiry into environmental and economic decision making
Kataria, Mitesh - 2010
The Porter hypothesis suggests that environmental regulations, such as restricting firms to reduce pollution, stimulates innovations and create a win-win situation for the environment and for firms. It has received a great deal of attention from academics as well as bureaucrats who disagree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008758852
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What can be learned from behavioural economics for environmental policy?
Pasche, Markus - 2013
Behavioural economics attracted attention from environmental economists: it should help to understand why people do not respond to environmental policy measures, based on neoclassical assumptions, as predicted by theory. Moreover, understanding motives and driving forces behind pro-social,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009742373
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The political economy of development and climate policy-prospects and challenges for an emission trading scheme as development and climate policy tool
Freytag, Andreas; Menter, Matthias; Montag, Jan Hauke; … - 2023
Economic development and climate change constitute two of today's major international policy challenges. While development cooperation has long been on the political agenda, addressing global climate change has gained policymakers' attention more recently. Transfers for financing single projects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014441590
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On whom would I want to depend; Humans or nature?
Farjam, Mike - 2015
We study in an experiment whether humans prefer to depend on decisions of other humans (social uncertainty) or states … other humans. This is the first experiment that studies social uncertainty that does not derive from a strategic situation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392605
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What drives motivated agents? : the "right" mission or sharing it with the principal
Koppel, Hannes; Regner, Tobias - 2015
Motivated agents are characterized by increasing their effort if their work generates not only a monetary return for them but also a benefit for a mission they support. While their motivation may stem from working for their preferred (i.e., the `right') mission, it may also be the principal's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401176
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Short- and long-run effects of external interventions on trust
Asanov, Igor A.; Vannuccini, Simone - 2015
of the experiment indicate that targeting is an effective instrument to promote trustful behavior, whereas subsidy policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339172