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Climate activism favors pro-environmental consumption
Marini, Marco; Nocito, Samuel - 2023
We investigate whether climate activism favors pro-environmental consumption by examining the impact of Fridays for Future (FFF) protests in Italy on second-hand automobile transactions in the strike-affected areas. Leveraging data on 10 million automobile transactions occurring before and after...
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Nature experiences and pro-environmental behavior : evidence from a randomized controlled trial
Flecke, Sarah Lynn; Schwaiger, Rene; Huber, Jürgen; … - 2023
We conducted a randomized controlled trial in a lab and natural setting to investigate whether exposure to nature leads people to behave more pro-environmentally. We further investigated whether attention restoration mediates this effect. Participants were randomly assigned to one of four...
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The Effect of Recycling Versus Trashing on Consumption : Theory and Experimental Evidence
Sun, Monic - 2018
This article proposes a utilitarian model in which recycling could reduce consumers' negative emotions from wasting resources (i.e., taking more resources than what is being consumed) and increase consumers' positive emotions from disposing of consumed resources. The authors provide evidence for...
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Citizens' intent and behavior towards recycling in the municipality of Kavala
Kechagias, Paraskevas; Dimitriadis, Efstathios - In: International journal of business and economic sciences … 12 (2019) 3, pp. 62-72
Purpose: This study examines the factors that tend to affect citizens intent and behavior towards recycling. There are several key factors that can influence this behavior, such as Individual perception and behavior towards recycling as well as the spatial planning of recycling bins and the...
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Consumer Preference for Durability and Energy Efficiency : Welfare Analysis of Light Bulb Market
Fukasawa, Takeshi - 2021
Durability is the pivotal component of durable goods. Durability not only induces demand dynamics through the change in the stock of products, but also affect the product choice of consumers. Furthermore, durability of products affect the long-run profits of firms.This paper specifies a dynamic...
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Unconventional Shale Gas Development, Risk Perceptions, and Averting Behavior : Evidence from Bottled Water Purchases
Wrenn, Douglas H. - 2016
Advances in technology have made extraction of natural gas from deep shale formations economically viable. While unconventional shale gas development is seen as an economic benefit, concerns have been raised about the environmental and health risks associated with the extraction process. We...
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The (Non)Separability of Air Quality : Evidence from Millions of Households Across the United States
Makridis, Christos - 2019
the census micro-data. With the newly created data, I document a strong negative association between ozone pollution and … with non-separable preferences between each of the market goods (consumption, leisure, and housing) and pollution. The …
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Evaluating the Environmental Impact of Debit Card Payments
Lindgreen, Erik Roos - 2017
Purpose: Consumers in the Netherlands made more than 3.2 billion debit card transactions at points-of-sale in 2015, corresponding to over half of all point-of-sale payments in that year. This study provides insights into the environmental impact of debit card transactions based on a life cycle...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945124
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Optimal Consumption of Polluting and Non-Polluting Goods : The Role of Habits
Greiner, Alfred - 2016
environmental pollution. Allowing for habit formation of the polluting good, we show under which conditions habit formation raises … formation generates a lower steady-state pollution stock compared to the situation without habits. Finally, we determine the … Pigou tax rates and we illustrate that the social optimum may imply a higher steady-state pollution than the competitive …
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Green Consumers, Greenwashing and the Misperception of Environmental Quality
Lambertini, Luca - 2014
In this paper we analyse a setup where consumers are heterogeneous in the perception of environmental quality. The equilibrium is verified in a setting with horizontal and vertical (green) differentiation. Profits are increasing in the misperception of quality, while, the investment in green...
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