Designing efficient environmental policies requires knowledge about households’ preference parameters for their intertemporal decisions. By conducting an original Internet-based survey using Japanese participants (n=2,906) and a follow-up survey (n=1,407), we examine how people evaluate...

Incorporating weakly nonseparable preferences into the familiar time-preference model, we emphasize a role of steady-state welfare changes in determining the effect of permanent tariffs on the current account. The effect consists of: a welfare effect, due to steady-state welfare changes, which...

Incorporating weakly nonseparable preferences into the familiar time-preference model, the author emphasizes a role of steady-state welfare changes in determining the effect of permanent tariffs on the current account. The effect consists of a welfare effect, due to steady-state welfare changes,...