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Towards sustainable carbon markets: Requirements for ecologically effective, economically efficient, and socially just emissions trading schemes

Rudolph, Sven; Lenz, Christine; Lerch, Achim; Volmert, … - 2011

existence often suffer from dilution in terms of ecological effectiveness, economic efficiency, and social justice. Thus, in … ecological effectiveness, economic efficiency and social justice and operationalizes them for giving design recommendations for … sustainable carbon markets. Methodologically, the paper uses welfare and institutional economics, jurisprudential reasoning, and …

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Sustainability economics: General versus specific, and conceptual versus practical

Baumgärtner, Stefan; Quaas, Martin - 2010

We clarify the definition and interpretation of 'sustainability economics' (Baumgärtner and Quaas 2010) in response to recent comments by van den Bergh (2010), Bartelmus (2010) and others. For that sake, we distinguish between general and specific definitions of sustainability and...

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Mixed Feelings: Theories and Evidence of Warm Glow and Altruism

Konow, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper presents theoretical and empirical analyses of experiments that test competing theories of altruism, including pure altruism (a preference for the well-being of others), warm glow (a good feeling from giving) and impure altruism (a combination of pure altruism and warm glow). These...

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Fair allocation of disputed properties

Ju, Biung-Ghi; Moreno-Ternero, Juan D. - 2016

We model problems of allocating disputed properties as generalized exchange economies. Therein, agents have preferences and claims over multiple goods, and the social endowment of each good may not be sufficient to satisfy all individual claims. We focus on market-based allocation rules that...

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Social preferences under risk : ex-post fairness vs. efficiency

Gaudeul, Alexia - 2015

Social lotteries are lotteries that are played along with someone else. The experimental literature indicates that risk attitudes depend on how one’s situation in the safe alternative compares to that of a peer. Evaluation of the risky alternative also depends on whether the lottery gives...

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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence : a large-scale experiment

Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin; … - 2010

less prominent motivating force of allocation decisions. At the same time, efficiency concerns increase in importance for …

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Social preferences in childhood and adolescence : a large-scale experiment

Sutter, Matthias; Feri, Francesco; Kocher, Martin; … - 2010 - This version: 15 June 2010

less prominent motivating force of allocation decisions. At the same time, efficiency concerns increase in importance for …

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Economic Efficiency and the Parameters of Fairness : A Marriage of Marketplace Morals and the Ethic of Care

White, Barbara Ann - 2010

' efficiency maximization, yields greater enhancements of social welfare than efficiency alone, by simultaneously satisfying the …. The most significant conclusion is that efficiency and fairness concerns do not conflict but rather mutually support each … other in the goal of maximizing social welfare. This is contrary to the more widely-held view by both advocates of law and …

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Who is in favor of affirmative action? : representative evidence from an experiment and a survey

Herzog, Sabrina; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Trieu, Chi; … - 2023

(e.g., related to an individual's altruism, fairness perceptions, concerns for efficiency, and political views). By …

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Who is in favor of affirmative action? : representative evidence from an experiment and a survey

Herzog, Sabrina; Schildberg-Hörisch, Hannah; Trieu, Chi; … - 2023

(e.g., related to an individual's altruism, fairness perceptions, concerns for efficiency, and political views). By …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444043