Browsing by Author "Martinsson, Peter"
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Anyone for Higher Speed Limits? - Self-Interested and Adaptive Political Preferences
Martinsson, Peter; Johansson-Stenman, Olof (2003)Swedish survey-evidence indicates that variables reflecting self-interest are important in explaining people’s preferred speed limits, and that political preferences adapt to technological development. Drivers of cars ... -
Are Commercial Fishers Risk Lovers?
Martinsson, Peter; Eggert, Håkan (2003)Empirical studies of fishers’ preferences have found that most fishers are risk-averse, while expected-utility theory predicts risk neutrality even for sizable stakes. We test this prediction using data from a stated choice ... -
Are Some Lives More Valuable?
Martinsson, Peter; Johansson-Stenman, Olof (2003)A theoretical model of the ethical preferences of individuals is tested by conducting a choice experiment on safety-enhancing road investments. The relative value of a saved life is found to decrease with age, such that ... -
Are They Watching You and Does It Matter? - Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
Alpízar, Francisco; Martinsson, Peter (2010-06)In a natural field experiment, we tested whether being alone or in a group had an effect on prosocial behavior as expressed in donations to a recreational park. We also explored whether the presence of people exogenous to ... -
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 ... -
Can we do policy recommendations from a framed field experiment? The case of coca cultivation in Colombia
Ibanez, Marcela; Martinsson, Peter (2008-05-27)Laboratory experiments are potentially effective tools for studying behavior in settings where little or no information would otherwise exist such as participation in illicit activities. However, using laboratory experiments ... -
Conditional Cooperation and Disclosure in Developing Countries
Martinsson, Peter; Pham-Khanh, Nam; Villegas-Palacio, Clara (2012-09)Understanding the motivations behind people’s voluntary contributions to public goods is crucial for the broader issues of economic and social development. By using the experimental design of Fischbacher et al. (2001), we ... -
Conditional Cooperation and Social Group - Experimental results from Colombia
Martinsson, Peter; Villegas-Palacio, Clara; Wollbrant, Conny (2009-08-05)In contrast to previous studies on cross-group comparisons of conditional cooperation, this study keeps cross- and within-country dimensions constant. The results reveal significantly different cooperation behavior between ... -
Conditional Cooperation: Evidence for the Role of Self-Control
Martinsson, Peter; Myrseth, Kristian Ove R.; Wollbrant, Conny (2010-07)When facing the opportunity to allocate resources between oneself and others, individuals may experience a self-control conflict between urges to act selfishly and preferences to act pro-socially. We explore the domain of ... -
Cooperation under risk and ambiguity
Björk, Lisa; Kocher, Martin; Martinsson, Peter; Nam Khanh, Pham (2016-12)The return from investments in public goods is almost always uncertain, in contrast to the most common setup in the existing empirical literature. We study the impact of natural uncertainty on cooperation in a social dilemma ... -
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 ... -
Do Experience and Cheap Talk influence Willingness to Pay in an Open-Ended Contingent Valuation Survey?
Martinsson, Peter; Carlsson, Fredrik (2006)In this paper we analyze the effect of information on respondents’ willingness to pay to avoid power outages in Sweden, by employing an open-ended contingent valuation survey. Two aspects of information are tested; (i) if ... -
Do Hypothetical and Actual Willingness to Pay Differ in Choice Experiments? - Application to the Valuation of the Environment
Martinsson, Peter; Carlsson, Fredrik (1999)In this paper we test the validity of choice experiments with donations for environmental projects. In particular, we test whether or not willingness to pay for projects differs between a hypothetical and an actual choice ... -
Do people avoid opportunities to donate? A natural field experiment on recycling and charitable giving
Knutsson, M.; Martinsson, Peter; Wollbrant, Conny (2012-09)We use a natural field experiment to investigate the hypothesis that generosity is partly involuntary, by examining whether individuals tend to avoid opportunities to act generously. In Sweden, new recycling machines for ... -
Do You Enjoy Having More Than Others? Survey Evidence of Positional Goods
Martinsson, Peter; Johansson-Stenman, Olof; Carlsson, Fredrik (2003)Although conventional economic theory proposes that only the absolute levels of income and consumption matter for people’s utility, there is much evidence that relative concerns are often important. This paper uses a ... -
Does age matter for the value of life? - Evidence from a choice experiment in rural Bangladesh
Johansson-Stenman, Olof; Mahmud, Minhaj; Martinsson, Peter (2009-10-19)Using a random sample of individuals in rural Bangladesh, this paper investigates people’s preferences regarding relative values of lives when it comes to different ages of the individuals being saved. By assuming that an ... -
Does disclosure crowd out cooperation?
Martinsson, Peter; Villegas-Palacio, Clara (2010-05-18)This paper investigates whether disclosure crowds out pro-social behavior using a public goods experiment. In a between-subject design, we investigate different degrees of disclosure. We find a small positive but insignificant ... -
Does experience eliminate the effect of a default option? - A field experiment on CO2-offsetting for air transport
Löfgren, Åsa; Martinsson, Peter; Hennlock, Magnus; Sterner, Thomas (2009-10-23)Earlier research has shown that using a default option has a decisive effect on individuals’ choices. In many cases, however, the low proportion of subjects who switch from the pre-set default option might partly explained ... -
Does it Matter When a Power Outage Occurs? - A Choice Experiment Study on the Willingness to Pay to Avoid Power Outages
Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter (2009-03-17)Using a choice experiment survey, the marginal willingness to pay (WTP) among Swedish households for reductions in power outages is estimated. The results from the random parameter logit estimation indicate that the ... -
Does it matter when a power outage occurs? — A choice experiment study on the willingness to pay to avoid power outages
Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter (Elsevier, 2008)Using a choice experiment survey, the marginal willingness to pay (WTP) among Swedish households for reductions in power outages is estimated. The results from the random parameter logit estimation indicate that the marginal ...