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Siblings, not triplets: social preferences for risk, inequality and time in discounting climate change
Helgeson, Jennifer; Dietz, Simon; Atkinson, Giles D.; … - In: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009), pp. 1-28
surveying the attitudes of over 3000 people to risk, income inequality over space and income inequality over time. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082949
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Siblings, not triplets: social preferences for risk, inequality and time in discounting climate change
Atkinson, Giles D.; Dietz, Simon; Helgeson, Jennifer; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
surveying the attitudes of over 3000 people to risk, income inequality over space and income inequality over time. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083419
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Once Upon a Time Preference - How Rationality and Risk Aversion Change the Rationale for Discounting
Traeger, Christian - CESifo - 2012
The paper develops an axiomatic framework for rational decision making. The von Neumann-Morgenstern axioms give rise to a richer risk attitude than that captured in the standard discounted expected utility model. I derive three models that permit a more comprehensive risk evaluation. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010544183
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Risk, inequality and time in the welfare economics of climate change: is the workhorse model underspecified?
Hepburn, Cameron; Hakon Sælen; Atkinson, Giles - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008
climate change economics, by surveying the attitudes of over 3000 people to risk, time, and income inequality.  The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005047845
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Within- and between- sample tests of preference stability and willingness to pay for forest management
Czajkowski, Mikołaj; Bartczak, Anna; Budziński, Wiktor; … - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2014
The assumption of the stability of preferences is a fundamental one in the theory of the consumer. Many papers within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929617
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Within- and between- sample tests of preference stability and willingness to pay for forest management
Czajkowski, Mikolaj; Barczak, Anna; Budzinski1, Wiktor … - Environmental Economics Research Group, Department of … - 2014
The assumption of the stability of preferences is a fundamental one in the theory of the consumer. Many papers within …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929630
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Field Experiments: A Bridge Between Lab and Naturally-Occurring Data
list, john - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
field experiments can yield important insights into economic theory and provide useful guidance to policymakers. I also draw …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084551
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When is some number really better than no number? On the optimal choice between non-market valuation methods
Munro, Alistair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Decision-makers have a wide variety of competing and complementary methods for non-market valuation, but there is little formal advice on the choice of method. I offer a formal approach, using a loss function (the mean square error) to compare contingent valuation, Citizens'Jury and methods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836923
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A note on the valuation of collective goods: overlooked input market free riding for non-individually incrementable goods
Graves, Philip E. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
initial incomes are implicitly–and wrongly–taken to be optimal. From a given income, the output demand revelation problem has … long been recognized–that there will be difficulty inferring true demands for public goods at that income (the traditional … individually increment a class of goods by increasing their income (e.g. public goods), they will have no incentive to generate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493588
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Social norms, morals and self-interest as determinants of pro-environment behaviour
Czajkowski, Mikołaj; Hanley, Nick; Nyborg, Karine - Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych, Uniwersytet Warszawski - 2014
This paper considers the role which selfish, moral and social incentives and pressures play in explaining the extent to which stated choices over pro-environment behaviours vary across individuals. The empirical context is choices over household waste contracts and recycling actions in Poland. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010789230