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vehicle industry, regulators should generally adopt a light-handed approach to regulation, encouraging a nationally …
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When preferences are sensitive to context, firms may try to influence purchase decisions by designing the environment of consumption choices. Confirming anecdotal evidence on retailer marketing tricks, we show that competitive retailers exploit context-sensitivity by designing environments that...
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. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. In fact … treatments, concluding a trade has no externality; in the other set, there is a negative externality by voiding donations for a … with an externality, but that market prices are hardly different between markets with or without an externality. We also …
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. Nevertheless, there is a heated recent debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. In fact … treatments, concluding a trade has no externality; in the other set, there is a negative externality by voiding donations for a … with an externality, but that market prices are hardly different between markets with or without an externality. We also …
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There is a heated debate on whether markets erode social responsibility and moral behavior. However, it is a … relation between trading volume, prices and moral behavior by setting up markets that either impose a negative externality on … third parties or not. We find that moral behavior reveals itself in lower trading volume in markets with an externality, and …
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, Pigou's effort gave rise to an unbroken Pigovian tradition in externality theory that continues to exert a substantial … the subject of externalities in a serious way, the very real externality phenomena—pollution, etc.—that had concerned …-relevant phenomena—that is, to the type of externality analysis that had preoccupied Pigou and that characterizes the economic analysis …
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Concerns around potential losses of competitiveness as a result of unilateral action on carbon pricing are often central for policy makers contemplating the introduction of such instruments. This paper is a review of literature on ex post empirical evaluations of the impacts of carbon prices on...
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Asymmetric climate policies are expected to distort the level-playing field regarding international trade, singularly to the detriment of small open economies. The paper develops a flexible method that provides essential input regarding the design of offsetting measures. It builds on...
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In recent years several European municipalities have paired market-based measures with urban distribution centres (UDC) in order to reduce CO2 emissions and make more sustainable urban freight ‡ows. However, UDCs may add reloading costs and extra delivery times which have relevant impact on...
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findings are in part because carbon price levels have been low and because of exemptions to carbon taxes for industry, or …
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