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Animal Welfare, Moral Consumers and the Optimal Regulation of Animal Food Production
Eichner, Thomas; Runkel, Marco - 2022
low quality of animal food. Correction of this market failure is attained by taxing animal food output and subsidizing … animal food quality. With consumer and producer heterogeneity, regulation is the same but sector-specific, with a more …
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Inequality, environmental protection and growth
Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, T. I. - 2000
Why do Scandinavian countries perform better in terms of environmental protection than other European Union countries? In this paper, we explore the hypothesis that societies characterised by low-income inequality (such as the Nordic European countries) generate political-economic equilibria...
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Brain gain: claims about its size and impact on welfare and growth are greatly exaggerated
Schiff, Maurice - 2005
Based on static partial equilibrium analysis, the new brain drain literature argues that, by raising the return to education, a brain drain generates a brain gain that is, under certain conditions, larger than the brain drain itself, and that such a net brain gain results in an increase in...
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Regulation of morally responsible agents with motivation crowding
Fünfgelt, Joachim; Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2012
We study the regulation of a morally responsible agent in the context of a negative consumption externality and motivation crowding. In particular, we analyze how various governmental interventions affect the agent's motivation to assume moral responsibility. Employing a motivation-crowding...
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Provision of a public good with altruistic overlapping generations and many tribes
Karp, Larry S. - 2012
Intergenerational altruism and contemporaneous cooperation are both important to the provision of long-lived public …
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The Influence of Altruistic Preferences on the Race to the Bottom of Welfare States
Hendel, Ulrich - 2012
recipients. It shows that under the assumption of taxpayers motivated by warm glow altruism, tax competition leads to unique pure … countries are asymmetric with respect to the number of welfare recipients, pure altruism and inequity aversion preferences …
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I don't want to hear about it: Rational ignorance among duty-orientd consumers
Nyborg, Karine - 2008
Individuals with a preference for keeping moral obligations may dislike learning that voluntary contributions are socially valuable: Such information can trigger unpleasant feelings of cognitive dissonance. I show that if initial beliefs about the social value of contributions are sufficiently...
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Internationaler Handel und multifunktionale Landwirtschaft: Ein Agrarsektormodell zur Analyse politischer Optionen und Entscheidungsunterstützung
Weber, Gerald - 2003
In der WTO-Agrarhandelsrunde von Doha geht es neben dem Abbau von Exportsubventionen und der Abschaffung von Marktzugangsbeschränkungen auch um die weitere Reduktion von internen Subventionen, die als produktions- und damit handelsverzerrend eingestuft sind. Eine Gruppe von Ländern, darunter...
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Von der Krisenreserve zur Agrarreserve: Falsche Anreize im neuen Rechtsrahmen?
Kranen, Dirk H.; Röpcke, Iris; Weyel, Jan-Eric - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 103 (2023) 12, pp. 837-841
Die neue Agrarkrisenreserve der EU, die 2023 eingeführt wurde, soll den Agrarsektor in Krisenunterstützen. Anders als zuvor wird diese Reserve direkt aus dem EU-Haushalt finanziert,damit die Direktzahlungen an die Landwirte nicht gekürzt werden müssen. Diese Änderunghat jedoch einen Anreiz...
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Evaluating willingness to become a food education volunteer among urban residents in Japan: Toward a participatory food policy
Ohe, Yasuo; Kurihara, Shinichi; Shimoura, Shinpei - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 2 (2014), pp. 1-19
Food education has attracted growing concern focusing on appropriate dietary habits amid the deterioration of many … aspects of health in this industrial society. For this purpose, a self-motivating type of food policy framework is expected to … increase in significance. Under such a self-motivating policy framework that aims at inducing people to increase their food …
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