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Competitive politics, simplified heuristics, and preferences for public goods

Schläpfer, Felix; Schmitt, Marcel; Roschewitz, Annette - 2007

-survey experiment to investigate how knowledge of party positions affects policy choices. We followed standard procedures in developing … an attribute-based choice experiment on alternative land-use policies in Switzerland. In contrast to the usual … ; choice experiment ; contingent valuation ; landscape ; heuristics ; information ; preference formation ; public goods …

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The transmission of sustainable harvesting norms when agents are conditionally cooperative

Richter, Andries; Grasman, Johan - 2013 - Draft version: 15 May 2013

Experimental and observational studies have highlighted the importance of agents being conditionally cooperative when facing a social dilemma. We formalize this mechanism in a theoretical model that portrays a small community having joint access to a common pool resource. The diffusion of norms...

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The cost of segregation in social networks

Allouch, Nizar - 2013

This paper investigates the private provision of public goods in segregated societies. While most research agrees that segregation undermines public provision, the findings are mixed for private provision: social interactions, being strong within groups and limited across groups, may either...

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How green are economists?

Carattini, Stefano; Tavoni, Alessandro - 2016

The market for voluntary carbon offsets has grown steadily in the last decade, yet it remains a very small niche. Most emissions from business travel are still not offset. This paper exploits a unique dataset examining the decision to purchase carbon offsets at two academic conferences in...

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Localization economies and the sensitivity of firm foundations to changes in taxation and public expenditure

Wittrock, Christian - 2018

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The politics of fiscal federalism : building a stronger decentralization theorem

Ponce Rodríguez, Raúl A.; Hankla, Charles R.; … - 2020

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A novel approach to estimating the demand value of road safety

Rheinberger, Christoph M.; Schläpfer, Felix; Lobsiger, … - 2016 - This version March 8, 2016

We estimate the demand value of road safety improvements in Switzerland from survey data using a novel elicitation approach. Individuals’ responses to questions about how much public spending on road safety should be increased are combined with observations of income, tax rate, and road usage...

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