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Do norms on contribution behavior affect intrinsic motivation? : field-experimental evidence from Germany
Boyer, Pierre C.; Dwenger, Nadja; Rincke, Johannes - 2016
This paper studies how imposing norms on contribution behavior affects individuals' intrinsic motivation. We consider the church levy, which the Catholic Church in Germany collects as a charitable donation, despite the fact that the levy is legally a tax. We design a randomized field experiment...
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New Vehicle Feebates
Rivers, Nicholas - 2015
of Ontario. We (1) show that second-best optimal feebates can be written as a function of new vehicle Pigouvian taxes; (2 …
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Do norms on contribution behavior affect intrinsic motivation? : field-experimental evidence from Germany
Boyer, Pierre C.; Dwenger, Nadja; Rincke, Johannes - In: Journal of public economics 144 (2016), pp. 140-153
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Quantifying the Social Costs of Nuclear Energy : Perceived Risk of Accident at Nuclear Power Plant
Huhtala, Anni; Remes, Piia - 2016
The preferences expressed in voting on nuclear reactor licenses and the risk perceptions of citizens provide insights into social costs of nuclear power and decision making in energy policy. We show analytically that these costs consist of disutility caused by unnecessary anxiety - due to...
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Internalizing negative environmental impacts from wind power production : Coasian bargaining, offsetting schemes and environmental taxes
Greaker, Mads; Hagem, Cathrine; Skulstad, Andreas - 2022
how to regulate the development of wind power plants (WPPs). Current regulation is largely based on a concession system …, where both environmental taxes and offset schemes are left unexplored. We develop a theoretical model of WPP development … with offsets and environmental taxes. We show that if additional loss of pristine nature and biodiversity is acceptable at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013468221
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Does state aid for broadband deployment in rural areas close the digital and economic divide?
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Dürr, Niklas S.; Falck, Oliver; … - 2016
We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid program for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German State of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have - depending on broadband quality -...
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Does State Aid for Broadband Deployment in Rural Areas Close the Digital and Economic Divide?
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Dürr, Niklas S.; Falck, Oliver; … - 2018
We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid programme for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German state of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using matched difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have – depending on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011815840
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Does state aid for broadband deployment in rural areas close the digital and economic divide?
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Dürr, Niklas S.; Falck, Oliver; … - 2016
We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid program for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German State of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have – depending on broadband quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541106
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Urban Renewal after the Berlin Wall : A Place-Based Policy Evaluation
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. - 2017
We use a quasi-experimental research design to study the effects of a spatially targeted renewal policy implemented in Berlin, Germany, in the aftermath of the city's division during the Cold War period. Our results suggest that over the course of 20 years, the policy helped to reduce (increase)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956191
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Gathering support for green tax reform : evidence from German household surveys
Ploeg, Frederick van der; Rezai, Armon; Tovar, Miguel - 2021
households are worse off. If the revenue is recycled via lower income taxes, there is more efficiency at the expense of more … inequality, and about half of households benefit. With a recycling mix of lump-sum transfers and lower income taxes, popular …
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