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Deschênes, Olivier; Meng, Kyle C. - 2018

This paper examines the application of quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics. We begin with two observations: i) standard quasi-experimental methods, first applied in other microeconomic fields, typically assume unit-level treatments that do not spill over across units; (ii)...

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Five essays in the economics of climate engineering, research, and regulation under uncertainty

Heyen, Daniel - 2015

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Communication and Incentive Mechanisms Based on Group Performance : An Experimental Study of Nonpoint Pollution Control

Vossler, Christian - 2013

This article considers whether communication can improve the efficacy of incentive mechanisms designed to correct the problem of moral hazard in groups. In particular, we use experimental economics methods to study environmental targeting instruments proposed by Segerson (1988) for regulating a...

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Chapter 7. Quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics: Opportunities and challenges

Deschenes, Olivier; Meng, Kyle C. - In: Handbook of environmental economics : Volume 4, (pp. 285-332). 2018

This paper examines the application of quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics. We begin with two observations: (i) standard quasi-experimental methods, first applied in other microeconomic fields, typically assume unit-level treatments that do not spill over across units; (ii)...

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Three essays on auctions and innovation

Giebe, Thomas - 2009

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Irreversibilities and the Optimal Timing of Environmental Policy Under Knightian Uncertainty

Asano, Takao - 2006

In this paper, we consider a problem in environmental policy design by applying optimal stopping rules. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the optimal timings at which the government should adopt environmental policies to deal with increases in greenhouse gas concentrations and to reduce...

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Clean up your own mess : an experimental study of moral responsibility and efficiency

Jakob, Michael; Kübler, Dorothea; Steckel, Jan Christoph; … - 2016

Although market-based environmental policy instruments feature prominently in economic theory and are widely employed, they often meet with public resistance. We argue that such resistance may be driven by a feeling of moral responsibility where citizens prefer to tackle environmental problems...

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Energy efficiency, information, and the acceptability of rent increases : a multiple price list experiment with tenants

Lang, Ghislaine; Lanz, Bruno - 2018 - This version: June 2018

This paper studies the role of imperfect information and attentional biases in the context of energy efficiency investments in rented properties and associated split incentives. We design a multiple price list experiment representing owners' decision to replace the central heating appliance, and...

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Who is afraid of pirates? : an experiment on the deterrence of innovation by imitation

Engel, Christoph; Kleine, Marco - 2013

givingimitators a free lunch does not have a chilling effect on innovation. -- innovation ; imitation ; appropriation ; patent … innovators are not protected against others appropriating their ideas, incentives for innovation are suboptimally low. Now in … most industries for most potential users, appropriating a foreign innovation is itself an investment decision fraught with …

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Who is Afraid of Pirates? An Experiment on the Deterrence of Innovation by Imitation

Engel, Christoph; Kleine, Marco - 2013

innovators are not protected against others appropriating their ideas, incentives for innovation are suboptimally low. Now in … most industries for most potential users, appropriating a foreign innovation is itself an investment decision fraught with … cost and risk. Nonetheless standard theory predicts too little innovation. Arguably the problem is exacerbated by …

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