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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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Revealed notions of distributive justice II : experimental evidence
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2013
We report the results of a combination of a dictator experiment with either a "social planner" or a "veil of ignorance …" experiment. The experimental design and the analysis of the data are based on the theoretical framework proposed in the companion … Agreement and Symmetry axioms proposed in BHH; we find that for 80% of participants the evidence is very strong. The experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370990
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On the independence of observations between experiments
Matthey, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2009
issue differ widely, all concerns regard the independence of subjects' behavior within one session or experiment. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003883277
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Revealed notions of distributive justice I : theory
Becker, Nicole; Häger, Kirsten; Heufer, Jan - 2013
We provide a framework to decompose preferences into a notion of distributive justice and a selfishness part and to recover individual notions of distributive justice from data collected in appropriately designed experiments. "Dictator games" with varying transfer rates used in Andreoni and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370991
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In search for Tiebout's mechanism "vote with their feet" in Bavaria
Münch, Angela - 2011
This paper analysis the possible demand for nature conservation within the Bavarian population. Drawing on the approach of revealed preferences and the mechanism of "vote with their feet" of Tiebout (1956) migration patterns in Bavarian counties are examined in more detail in order to assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009129724
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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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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
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Preferences-dependent learning in the Centipede game
Gamba, Astrid; Regner, Tobias - 2015
We study experimentally whether heterogeneity of behavior in the Centipede game can be interpreted as the result of a learning process of individuals with different preference types (more and less pro-social) and coarse information regarding the opponent's past behavior. We manipulate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011326679