Browsing by Author "Carlsson, Fredrik"
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Airline choice, switching costs and frequent flyer programs
Löfgren, Åsa; Carlsson, Fredrik (2004)Switching costs are costs that customers face when switching from one firm to another. In markets such as the airline market where repeated purchases are common, switching costs may be substantial. In this paper we ... -
Airport Marginal Cost Pricing: Discussion and an Application to Swedish Airports
Carlsson, Fredrik (2002)We derive an optimal airport-pricing model, both with and without a constraint on the revenues, that includes all relevant external marginal costs,. Given the results of the model we discuss the implications on the profit ... -
All it takes is one: The effect of weakest-link and summation aggregation on public good provision under threshold uncertainty
Carlsson, Fredrik; Ek, Claes; Lange, Andreas (University of Gothenburg, 2021-11)We report experimental evidence on the voluntary provision of public goods under threshold uncertainty. By explicitly comparing two prominent technologies, summation and weakest link, we show that uncertainty is particularly ... -
Anonymity, reciprocity, and conformity: Evidence from voluntary contributions to a national park in Costa Rica
Alpizar, Francisco; Carlsson, Fredrik; Johansson-Stenman, Olof (Springer, 2008)We investigate the role of anonymity, reciprocity, and conformity for voluntary contributions, based on a natural field experiment conducted at a national park in Costa Rica. Contributions made in public in front of the ... -
Anonymity, Reciprocity, and Conformity: Evidence from Voluntary Contributions to a National Park in Costa Rica
Alpizar, Francisco; Carlsson, Fredrik; Johansson-Stenman, Olof (2007-02-21)We investigate the role of anonymity, reciprocity, and conformity for voluntary contributions, based on a natural field experiment conducted at a national park in Costa Rica. Contributions made in public in front of the ... -
Are Agricultural Extension Packages What Ethiopian Farmers Want? A Stated Preference Analysis
Yesuf, Mahmud; Mekonnen, Alemu; Köhlin, Gunnar; Carlsson, Fredrik (2005)There is an evident dichotomy in many rural development policies in the world between extension driven adoption of modern inputs and community driven local public goods. However, the target populations of these policies ... -
Are people inequality averse or just risk averse?
Johansson-Stenman, Olof; Daruvala, Dinky; Carlsson, Fredrik (2001)Individuals' preferences for risk and inequality are measured through experimental choices between hypothetical societies and lotteries. The median relative risk aversion, which is often seen to reflect social inequality ... -
Are Vietnamese Farmers Concerned with their Relative Position in Society?
Martinsson, Peter; Linde-Rahr, Martin; Nam, Pham Khanh; Carlsson, Fredrik (2005)This paper examines the attitude towards relative position or status among rural households in Vietnam. On average, the respondents show weaker preferences for relative position than in comparable studies in Western ... -
Assessing management options for weed control with demanders and non-demanders in a choice experiment
Kataria, Mitesh; Carlsson, Fredrik (2006)The yellow floating heart is a water weed causing nuisance problems in Swedish watercourses. An economic analysis of this is required where various management options are considered. The benefits of a management program ... -
Can local communities in Zimbabwe be trusted with wildlife management?: Evidence from contingent valuation of elephants
Muchapondwa, Edwin; Carlsson, Fredrik; Köhlin, Gunnar (2009-11-19)If local communities living adjacent to the elephant see it as a burden, then they cannot be trusted to be its stewards. To assess their valuation of it, a CVM study was conducted for one CAMPFIRE district in Zimbabwe. ... -
Celebrity Endorsement in Promoting Pro-Environmental Behavior
Ho, Thong; Nie, Zihan; Alpizar, Francisco; Carlsson, Fredrik; Khanh Nam, Pham (2020-10)We conduct a natural field experiment on the effect of having a celebrity endorse an information campaign aiming to induce pro-environmental behavior in the context of single-use plastics consumption. We find that an ... -
A choice experiment on coca cropping
Ibanez, Marcela; Carlsson, Fredrik (2008-02-13)Between 1997 and 2005, 5.2 billion USD were invested to reduce cocaine production in Colombia, the world’s main cocaine producer. However, little is known about the effectiveness of policies targeting coca cultivation, ... -
Choosing from Behind a Veil of Ignorance in India
Johansson-Stenman, Olof; Gupta, Gautam; Carlsson, Fredrik (2002)Social inequality aversion is measured through a veil-of-ignorance experiment with Indian students. The median relative risk aversion is found to be quite high, about 3, and independent caste. -
Conformity and the demand for environmental goods
Carlsson, Fredrik; García, Jorge H.; Löfgren, Åsa (2008-02-13)We test the hypothesis that people conform to certain social norms, i.e. that some individuals may be willing to pay a higher price premium for green products the more widespread green consumerism is in society. To ... -
Consumer benefits of labels and bans on genetically modified food - An empirical analysis using Choice Experiments
Lagerkvist, Carl-Johan; Frykblom, Peter; Carlsson, Fredrik (2004)Applying an experiment on the choice of consumer goods, we show that Swedish consumers do not regard genetically modified (GM) food as being equivalent to conventional food. A central argument by proponents of GM is that ... -
Consumer willingness to pay for farm animal welfare - transportation of farm animals to slaughter versus the use of mobile abattoirs
Lagerkvist, Carl Johan; Frykblom, Peter; Carlsson, Fredrik (2004)This study employed a choice experiment (CE) to ascertain consumer preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for non-market food product quality attributes. Data were obtained from a large mail survey and estimated with a ... -
Contingent valuation of community plantations in Ethiopia: a look into value elicitation formats and intra-household preference variations
Mekonnen, Alemu; Köhlin, Gunnar; Carlsson, Fredrik (2004)This paper is an application of the contingent valuation method on community plantations in the highlands of Ethiopia. A discrete-continuous elicitation format was applied. It was found that there is a problem in applying ... -
Cooperation in teams: the role of identity, punishment and endowment distribution
Weng, Qian; Carlsson, Fredrik (2013-01)Common identity and peer punishment have been identified as important means to reduce free riding and to promote cooperation in teamwork settings. This paper examines the relative importance of these two mechanisms, as ... -
Cost of Power Outages for Manufacturing Firms in Ethiopia: A Stated Preference Study
Carlsson, Fredrik; Demeke, Eyoual; Martinsson, Peter; Tesemma, Tewodros (2018-05)Having a reliable supply of electricity is essential for the operation of any firm. In most developing countries, however, electricity supply is highly unreliable. In this study, we estimate the cost of power outages for ... -
Costs and Benefits of Electric Vehicles - A 2010 Perspective
Johansson-Stenman, Olof; Carlsson, Fredrik (2002)This paper undertakes a social cost-benefit analysis regarding an increase in the number of electric vehicles in the Swedish transport sector by year 2010. Battery cars are generally found to be socially unprofitable, even ...