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While economists in the past tended to assume that individual preferences, including risk preferences, are stable over time, a recent literature has developed and indicates that risk preferences respond to shocks. This paper utilizes a natural experiment with covariate (drought) and...
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We investigate the role of information strategy in shifting the purchasing preferences of “green” organic consumers towards a subset of “greener” products that foster adaptation to climate change. We focus on organic pasta, a widely consumed food, to conduct field experiment that...
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The risk of losses of income and productive means due to adverse weather can differ significantly among farmers sharing a productive landscape, and is of course hard to estimate, or even “guesstimate” empirically. Moreover, the costs associated with investments in reduced vulnerability to...
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levels of risk, under measurable and unmeasurable uncertainty. Moreover, the costs associated to investments in reduced …
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levels of risk, under measurable and unmeasurable uncertainty. Moreover, the costs associated to investments in reduced …
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levels of risk, under measurable and unmeasurable uncertainty. Moreover, the costs associated to investments in reduced …
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levels of risk, under measurable and unmeasurable uncertainty. Moreover, the costs associated to investments in reduced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014193176
Based on data for more than 2,400 citizens in Japan, this paper empirically examines the effect of climate-related identity in private and organizational contexts on revealed climate protec-tion activities, measured through incentivized donations. To identify causal effects, we include the...
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The social cost of carbon (SCC) is a monetary measure of the harms from carbon emission. Specifically, it is the reduction in current consumption that produces a loss in social welfare equivalent to that caused by the emission of a ton of CO2. The standard approach is to calculate the SCC using...
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