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Are bad institutions always bad for society? : trust and cooperation in times of crisis

Conzo, Pierluigi; Daniele, Gianmarco; Martinangeli, … - 2025 - This Version: July 9, 2025

This paper investigates how institutional and social trust respond to crisis situations, and to what extent different kinds of trust interact in such a context. In an online survey experiment on 4,400 representative respondents from Italy, participants are exposed to a real-world flooding...

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The Demand for Global and Local Environmental Protection - Experimental Evidence from Climate Change Mitigation in Beijing

Löschel, Andreas - 2018

investigated. Participants from Beijing were offered the opportunity to contribute to voluntary climate change mitigation by … emissions mitigation is inevitably linked to other local benefits like the reduction in emissions of air pollutants, the aim of … Shenzhen ETS permits indicating that a substantial part of the revealed demand for voluntary climate change mitigation in …

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A model united nations experiment on climate negotiations

Hofmann, Elisa; Kyriacou, Lucas; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2021

Weitzman (2014) proposed that focusing international climate negotiations on a uniform carbon price is more effective than Paris style negotiations in achieving ambitious climate action. We put this hypothesis to an experimental test by simulating international negotiations on climate change in...

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The Demand for Global and Local Environmental Protection – Experimental Evidence from Climate Change Mitigation in Beijing

Löschel, Andreas - 2018

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A model United Nations experiment on climate negotiations

Hofmann, Elisa; Kyriacou, Lucas; Schmidt, Klaus M. - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 243 (2023) 5, pp. 543-566

Weitzman, M.L. (2014. Can negotiating a uniform carbon price help to internalize the global warming externality? J. Assoc. Environ. Resour. Econ. 1: 29-49) proposed that focusing international climate negotiations on a uniform common commitment (such as a uniform carbon price) is more effective...

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Temperature and low-stakes cognitive performance

Zhang, Xin; Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2023

This paper offers one of the first evidence in a developing country context that transitory exposure to high temperatures may disrupt low-stakes cognitive activities across a range of age cohorts. By matching eight years of repeated cognitive tests among all the participants in a nationally...

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Carbon prices for the next hundred years

Gerlagh, Reyer; Liski, Matti - 2014

World income grows fast without verifiable climate-change impacts on the economy. The growth spell can end if climate impacts turn real but this can take decades to learn. We develop a tractable stochastic climate-economy model with a hidden-state impact process to evaluate the contributions of...

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The effect of temperature experiences on climate adaptation policy prioritization : evidence from the European Union

Heckenhahn, Jonas - 2025

adaptation policies—both relative to mitigation measures and in absolute terms. To address these questions, this study links … distance framework. In contrast, cold exposure reduces absolute adaptation support and increases people’s relative mitigation … needs with essential long-term mitigation targets. …

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Climate Change and Diet

Bose, Neha - 2020

Though many in the general public are concerned about climate change, most are unaware that agriculture and food production accounts for about one quarter of aggregate green house emissions and therefore, diet change is one of the most effective ways that individuals can reduce their climate...

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Climate Change and Extreme Events : An Assessment of Economic Implications

Roson, Roberto; Calzadilla, Alvaro; Pauli, Francesco - 2014

We use a general equilibrium model of the world economy, and a regional economic growth model, to assess the economic implications of vulnerability from extreme meteorological events, induced by the climate change. In particular, we first consider the impact of climate change on ENSO and NAO...

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