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Revealed preferences for climate protection when the purely individual perspective is relaxed : evidence from a framed field experiment
Löschel, Andreas; Sturm, Bodo; Uehleke, Reinhard - 2013
In this paper, we investigate the real demand for climate protection when the purely individual perspective of existing revealed preference studies is relaxed. This is achieved in two treatments; first, we determine the information subjects receive about the demand revealed by other subjects in...
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Climate Change Cosmopolitanism
Sunstein, Cass R. - 2021
If one nation damages another, what are its obligations? This question can be approached and understood in diverse ways, but it is concretized in debates over the social cost of carbon, which is sometimes described as the linchpin of national climate policy. The social cost of carbon, meant to...
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Does mitigation begin at home?
Diederich, Johannes; Goeschl, Timo - 2017
In a climate system that is indifferent about where mitigation is carried out, the logic of comparative advantages … industrialized countries who voluntarily fund climate mitigation activities are not indifferent about the mitigation location. In our … and the verified mitigation of one metric ton of CO2. The treatment condition varied the location of the mitigation …
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Nudging for tax compliance : a meta-analysis
Antinyan, Armenak; Asatryan, Zareh - 2019
Taxpayer nudges - behavioral interventions that aim to increase tax compliance without changing the underlying economic incentives of taxpayers - are used increasingly by governments because of their potential cost-effectiveness in raising tax revenue. We collect about a thousand treatment...
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Coping with advantageous inequity : field evidence from professional penalty kicking
Lackner, Mario; Sonnabend, Hendrik - 2017
This contribution examines the effect of advantageous inequity on performance using data from top-level penalty kicking in soccer. Results indicate that, on average, professionals do not perform worse when they experience unfair advantages. However, we find a negative effect of advantageous...
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Cost misperceptions and energy consumption : experimental evidence for present bias and biased price beliefs
Werthschulte, Madeline; Löschel, Andreas - 2019
The aim of this study is to link variation in energy cost misperceptions to variation in households' energy consumption. The focus is on two sorts of misperceptions: First, present biased discounting of future energy costs and second, biased energy price beliefs. By running an artefactual field...
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Are the effects of informational interventions driven by salience?
Bettinger, Eric; Cunha, Nina Menezes; Lichand, Guilherme; … - 2020
Informational interventions have been shown to significantly change behavior across a variety of settings. Is that because they lead subjects to merely update beliefs in the right direction? Or, alternatively, is it to a large extent because they increase the salience of the decision they...
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Heterogeneous preferences and the individual change to alternative electricity contracts
Ziegler, Andreas - 2018
Based on data from a large-scale computer-based survey among more than 3700 German citizens, this paper empirically disentangles the determinants of the general change of electricity contracts and the specific change to green electricity contracts. Our econometric analysis reveals a strong...
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Present-biased preferences and credit card borrowing
Meier, Stephan; Sprenger, Charles - 2009
Some individuals borrow extensively on their credit cards. This paper tests whether present-biased time preferences correlate with credit card borrowing. In a field study, we elicit individual time preferences with incentivized choice experiments, and match resulting time preference measures to...
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Stability of time preferences
Meier, Stephan; Sprenger, Charles D. - 2010
Individuals frequently face intertemporal decisions. For the purposes of economic analysis, the preference parameters assumed to govern these decisions are generally considered to be stable economic primitives. However, evidence on the stability of time preferences is notably lacking. In a large...
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