Browsing by Author "Sterner, Thomas"
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Agricultural Risk Management through Community-Based Wildlife Conservation in Rural Zimbabwe
Muchapondwa, Edwin; Sterner, Thomas (2009-12-03)This paper investigates whether the risk faced by rural farmers in Zimbabwe could poten- tially be managed by using community-based wildlife conservation. Community-based wildlife conservation could be an additional asset ... -
Are demand elasticities affected by politically determined tax levels? : simultaneous estimates of gasoline demand and price
Flood, Lennart; Islam, Nizamul; Sterner, Thomas (2007-10-14)Raising the price of fossil fuels is a key component of any effective policy to deal with climate change. Just how effective such policies are is decided by the price elasticities of demand. Many papers have studied this ... -
Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Services Provision: A Tale of Confused Objectives, Mulitple Market Failures and Policy Challenges
Coria, Jessica; Robinson, Elizabeth; Smith, Henrik G.; Sterner, Thomas (2012-10)Most research and funding in conservation has been oriented toward biodiversity per se. Until recently there has been little tangible effort in linking conservation to ecosystem service provision. Nevertheless, this trend ... -
Bioeconomic Model of Community Incentives for Wildlife Management Before and After CAMPFIRE
Fischer, Carolyn; Muchapondwa, Edwin; Sterner, Thomas (2009-12-03)This paper formulates a bioeconomic model to analyze community incentives for wildlife management under benefit-sharing programs like the Communal Areas Management Programme for Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE) in Zimbabwe. ... -
Common ground for effort sharing? Preferred principles for distributing climate mitigation efforts
Hjerpe, Mattias; Löfgren, Åsa; Linnér, Björn-Ola; Hennlock, Magnus; Sterner, Thomas; Jagers, Sverker C. (2011-03)This paper fills a gap in the current academic and policy literature concerning how parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change find common ground when distributing commitments and responsibilities ... -
Corporate environmental management in transition economies: The case of Central and Eastern Europe
Garcia, Jorge; Bluffstone, Randy; Sterner, Thomas (2009-12-04)We use firm-level data to study the adoption of Environmental Management Practices (EMPs) in the most polluting industrial sectors in Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia during the 1990 – 1998 ... -
Decoupling: Is there a Separate Contribution from Environmental Taxation
Muller, Adrian; Löfgren, Åsa; Sterner, Thomas (2011-01)Decoupling is a crucial topic in the analysis of sustainable development. Without decoupling, continuing and increasing economic growth in developed and developing countries would come with ever increasing environmental ... -
Diffusion of NOx abatement technologies in Sweden
Bonilla, Jorge; Coria, Jessica; Mohlin, Kristina; Sterner, Thomas (2014-01)This paper studies how different NOx abatement technologies have diffused under the Swedish system of refunded emissions charges and analyzes the determinants of the time to adoption. The policy, under which the charge ... -
Discounting and Relative Consumption
Johansson-Stenman, Olof; Sterner, Thomas (2013-03)We analyze optimal social discount rates when people derive utility from relative consumption. We compare the social, private, and conventional Ramsey rates. Assuming a positive growth rate, we find that 1) the social ... -
Discounting and relative prices in assessing future environmental damages
Sterner, Thomas; Hoel, Michael (2006)Environmentalists are often upset at the effect of discounting costs of future environmental damage, e.g. due to climate change. An often overlooked message is that we should discount costs but also take into account the ... -
Discrimination in Scientific Review - A natural field experiment on blind versus non-blind review
Carlsson, Fredrik; Löfgren, Åsa; Sterner, Thomas (2009-12-09)This paper analyzes the impacts of gender, as well as other author characteristics, on reviewers’ grading of papers submitted to an international conference in economics in Sweden in 2008. Correcting for other variables, ... -
Do Markets Trump Politics? Evidence from Fossil Market Reactions to the Paris Agreement and the U.S. Election
Mukanjari, Samson; Sterner, Thomas (2018-03)The Paris Agreement was acclaimed as a milestone for climate negotiations. It has also been criticized – as too soft by environmentalists and too constraining by the current U.S. administration, which has decided to leave. ... -
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 ... -
Emissions Trading Subject to Kantian Preferences
Hennlock, Magnus; Löfgren, Åsa; Sterner, Thomas; Martinsson, Peter (2018-01)We study a cap-and-trade market equilibrium where different regions belonging to an emissions trading regime have different ambitions about the stringency of the cap. Specifically, we introduce a segment of consumers with ... -
Fiscal Federalism, Interjurisdictional Externalities and Overlapping Policies
Coria, Jessica; Hennlock, Magnus; Sterner, Thomas (University of Gothenburg, 2018-09)In this paper, we analyze the effects of the interaction between national and local policies designed to reduce an environmental externality that causes environmental damages both nationally and locally. We formulate a ... -
Food labels: how consumers value moral, environmental, and health aspects of meat consumption
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina; Nyberg, Erik; Sterner, Thomas (2020-04)Policy changes could improve health and environmental outcomes by addressing the many externalities and internalities related to food consumption. Using a stated preference approach, we investigate to what extent consumers ... -
Have Countries with Lax Environmental Regulations a Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries?
Quiroga, Miguel; Sterner, Thomas; Persson, Martin (2009-12-04)We aim to study whether lax environmental regulations induce comparative advantages, causing the least-regulated countries to specialize in polluting industries. The study is based on Trefler and Zhu’s (2005) definition ... -
Integrating Soil Science into Agricultural Production Frontiers
Ekbom, Anders; Alem, Yonas; Sterner, Thomas (2012-12)This paper integrates soil science variables into an economic analysis of agricultural output among small-scale farmers in Kenya’s highlands. The integration is valuable because farmers’ choice of inputs depends on both ... -
Is Fairness Blind? - The effect of framing on preferences for effort-sharing rules
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina; Löfgren, Åsa; Sterner, Thomas (2010-03-29)By using a choice experiment, this paper focuses on citizens’ preferences for effort-sharing rules of how carbon abatement should be shared among countries. We find that Swedes do not rank the rule favoring their own ... -
Leading by example? EU citizens’ preferences for climate leadership
Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina; Löfgren, Åsa; Sterner, Thomas (University of Gothenburg, 2022-10)For global problems like climate change, strong international agreements are difficult to achieve. Alternative solutions might therefore be necessary. In this paper, we study the support for climate leadership in seven ...