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Deterministic Choice Set Variation in Demand Estimation - with an Application to Consumption Rivalry in the EV Public Charging Market
Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2020
Consumption rivalry generates variation in the choice sets individual decision-makers face. When such variation is not taken into account, biased estimates of demand result. Researchers however often lack exact information on temporal variation in product availability and necessarily limit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826114
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Can reminders promote regular pro-environmental behavior? : experimental evidence from Peru
Fuhrmann, Hanna; D'Exelle, Ben; López Vargas, Kristian; … - 2024
-environmental behavior. To fill this gap, we investigate the impact of mobile text reminders on households' recycling behavior in urban Peru …, by randomly varying the frequency of reminders over a nine-week treatment period. We find that reminders increase both … before the intervention. The effects are stronger if reminders are repeated over a longer period. Our findings suggest that …
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Sustainability and the problem of consumption
Witt, Ulrich - 2011
Strong growth in disposable income has inflated consumption to unprecedented, but not sustainable levels. In this process consumer behavior has been changing. To explain the driving forces of this development, the paper introduces a theory of evolving consumer preferences that is molded in an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009382899
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Asymmetric and Non-Atmospheric Consumption Externalities, and Efficient Consumption Taxation
Eckerstorfer, Paul - 2013
We analyze the effects of a generalized class of negative consumption externalities (asymmetric and non-atmospheric) on the structure of efficient commodity tax programs. Households are not only concerned about consumption reference levels --- that is, they gain utility from "keeping up with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088502
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A Mixed Bag : The Hidden Time Costs of Regulating Consumer Behavior
Taylor, Rebecca - 2019
The non-monetary costs consumers experience from regulations are challenging to quantify, and thus easily overlooked. Using quasi-experimental policy variation and high-frequency supermarket data, this paper identifies previously hidden time costs from policies that ban or tax the use of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012899199
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Would My Driving Pattern Change If My Neighbor Were to Buy an Emission-Free Car?
Kverndokk, Snorre - 2019
Aiming to reduce the number of brown (polluting) cars on the road, several countries currently promote the purchase and use of green (emission-free) cars through financial and non-financial incentives. We study how such incentives affect consumers who continue to drive brown cars. Using a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866367
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New Vehicle Feebates
Rivers, Nicholas - 2015
New vehicle feebate programs encourage improved fleet-wide vehicle fuel efficiency; yet analyses of these policies have been limited to ad hoc proposals. In this paper, we exploit an extensive, multi-year dataset which includes more than 16 million observations to evaluate the welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032654
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Asymmetric and non-atmospheric consumption externalities, and efficient consumption taxation
Eckerstorfer, Paul; Wendner, Ronald - 2013
We analyze the effects of a generalized class of negative consumption externalities (asymmetric and non-atmospheric) on the structure of effcient commodity tax programs. Households are not only concerned about consumption reference levels - that is, they gain utility from "keeping up with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009738818
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Prices versus quantities with morally concerned consumers
Schmidt, Klaus M.; Herweg, Fabian - 2021
It is widely believed that an environmental tax (price regulation) and cap-and-trade (quantity regulation) are equally efficient in controlling pollution when there is no uncertainty. We show that this is not the case if some consumers (firms, local governments) are morally concerned about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500312
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Would my driving pattern change if my neighbor were to buy an emission-free car?
Kverndokk, Snorre; Figenbaum, Erik; Hovi, Jon - 2019
Aiming to reduce the number of brown (polluting) cars on the road, several countries currently promote the purchase and use of green (emission-free) cars through financial and non-financial incentives. We study how such incentives affect consumers who continue to drive brown cars. Using a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026368