This paper investigates the impact of social preferences and information about the value chain on the willingness to pay (WTP) for Fair-trade products. More specifically, the perceived social and economic benefits for Fair-trade farmers are analyzed in order to study whether altruistic...

In distinct decision environments,consumers often fail to financially optimize their decisions. In liberalized electricity markets, consumers frequently do not optimize their electricity choices and stick with the default providers instead, despite the ability to choose among an increasingly...

In the light of European energy efficiency and clean air legislations, as well as an ambitious electric mobility goal of the German government, we examine consumer preferences for alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs), based on a Germany-wide discrete choice experiment among 711 potential car buyers....