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Fairness and the support of redistributive environmental policies
Andor, Mark Andreas; Lange, Andreas; Sommer, Stephan - 2022
Exemptions from costly policy measures are frequently applied to alleviate financial burdens to specific market participants. Using a stated-choice experiment with around 6,000 German household heads, we test how exemptions for low-income households and energy-intensive companies influence the...
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Diverging beliefs on climate change and climate policy in Germany : the role of political orientations
Knollenborg, Leonard; Sommer, Stephan - 2021
Using longitudinal data from two household surveys in 2017 and 2019, we analyze the determinants of climate skepticism in Germany. We find that nearly 20% of respondents state that they do not believe in climate change and more than 30% are doubtful that climate change is mainly caused by human...
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Environmental management systems : does certification pay?
Frondel, Manuel; Krätschell, Karoline; Zwick, Lina - 2014
The voluntary adoption of environmental management systems (EMS), frequently certified by third-party audits following international standards, has become a vital supplement to mandatory environmental policies based on regulation and legislation. Although there is empirical evidence that both...
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The impact of climate-related fiscal and financial policies on carbon emissions in G20 countries : a panel quantile regression approach
D'Orazio, Paola; Dirks, Maximilian W. - 2020
contributes to improving environmental quality. Moreover, our findings suggest that what matters is not the financial sector size …
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From low emission zone to academic track : environmental policy effects on educational achievement in elementary school
Brehm, Johannes; Pestel, Nico; Schaffner, Sandra; … - 2022
Low Emission Zones (LEZs) reduce local air pollution by restricting emission-intensive vehicles from accessing designated areas and have been shown to improve population health. Little is known about the effects of driving restriction policies on other areas of life. This paper studies the...
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Price and non-price competition in oligopoly : an analysis of relative payoff maximizers
Moghadam, Hamed M. - 2015
as quality simultaneously. In conclusion, our results show that equilibrium solutions of RPM and APM are distinct. We …
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The impact of structural and strategic competition on hospital quality
Wuckel, Christiane - 2022
Many health care systems aim to enhance hospital quality by encouraging competition. However, evidence on the … relationship between quality and competition is inconclusive. My contribution to this literature is two-fold. Analyzing the … relationship between competition and quality for the German hospital market can give valuable insights about the nature of the …
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Does competition in the out-patient sector improve quality of medical care? : evidence from administrative data
Stroka, Magdalena A.; Talmann, Anna; Linder, Roland - 2016
density of general and medical practitioner and the quality of care provided to the frail elderly. The quality of care is …
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Altruism heterogeneity and quality competition among healthcare providers
Kairies-Schwarz, Nadja - 2014
evidence, we build a spatial quality competition model with altruism heterogeneity. We find that more altruistic healthcare … providers supply relatively higher quality levels and position themselves closer to the center. Whether the social planner … offset costly quality competition. …
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Increasing consumer surplus through a novel product testing mechanism
Vollstaedt, Ulrike; Imcke, Patrick; Brendel, Franziska; … - 2020
Our study proposes a novel mechanism to reduce information asymmetry about product quality between buyers and sellers …
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