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While consumer sustainability benefits exhibit particular characteristics, e.g., as they are typically based on non …
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We constructed triopolistic experimental markets where producers set prices. One producer's costs were higher than the others. In two experiments, costs were attributed to compliance with ethical guidelines. In the third, no justification was provided. Consumers paid premia for the ethically...
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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...
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Strong growth in disposable income has driven, and is still driving, consumption to unprecedented, but not sustainable levels. To explain the dynamic interplay of needs, need satisfaction, and innovation underlying that growth a behavioral theory of consumption is suggested and discussed with...
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That institutions matter is widely accepted among economists and so are social norms as an important category of informal institutions. Social norms matter in many economic situations, but in particular for markets. The economic literature has studied the interrelation between markets and social...
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That institutions matter is widely accepted among economists and so are social norms as an important category of informal institutions. Social norms matter in many economic situations, but in particular for markets. The economic literature has studied the interrelation between markets and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488545
valuation analysis). This observation is of particular relevance when WTP regards sustainability, the "non-use value" of which … sustainability, while keeping the analytical framework within the realm of the CW paradigm. In terms of practical implications, we … sustainability, as they may rather echo learnt but unreflected heuristics and may be subject to the specific shopping context, such …
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preferences of existing consumers in the future. The dimension of time is inextricably linked with that of sustainability. Taking … into account the welfare of future cohorts of consumers, concerns for sustainability can therefore be integrated into the … welfare paradigm and can help to solve conceptual issues regarding the integration of sustainability into antitrust …
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extends the range of normatively acceptable sustainability policies. …
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