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Airline choice, switching costs and frequent flyer programs
(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 ...
Using Ex Post Data to Estimate the Hurdle Rate of Abatement Investments - An Application to the Swedish Pulp and Paper Industry and Energy Sector
(2007-03-21)
We propose a method for estimating hurdle rates for firms’ investments in pollution
abatement technology, using ex post data. The method is based on a structural option value
model where the future price of polluting ...
Decoupling: Is there a Separate Contribution from Environmental Taxation
(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 ...
Discrimination in Scientific Review - A natural field experiment on blind versus non-blind review
(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, ...
The Climate Decade: Changing Attitudes on Three Continents
(2020-05)
We examine how attitudes and willingness to pay (WTP) for climate policies have changed over the past decade in the United States, China, and Sweden. All three countries exhibit an increased willingness to pay for climate ...
Swedish CO2-Emissions 1993 - 2006 – An Application of Decomposition Analysis and Some Methodological Insights
(2008-06-24)
This study undertakes a decomposition analysis to identify the
drivers of carbon emissions change in the Swedish business and industry sectors
1993 - 2006. On aggregate, energy intensity decreased, but this does not seem ...
The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth - A Multiple Country Test of an Oath Script
(2010-11)
Hypothetical bias is one of the main issues bedeviling the field of nonmarket valuation. The
general criticism is that survey responses reflect how people would like to behave, rather than how
they actually behave. In ...
Attitudes to Personal Carbon Allowances
(2011-05)
A personal carbon allowance (PCA) scheme targets emissions from individual consumption and allocates allowances directly to individuals by dividing the carbon budget on a per capita basis. In this study we analyse the ...
The Effect of Addiction on Environmental Taxation in a First and Second-best world
(2003)
We examine the effect of addictive behavior on a socially optimal
environmental tax. If utility in part depends on past consumption
and individuals are time-consistent, the socially optimal
environmental tax is shown to ...
Attitudes to Personal Carbon Allowances: The effect of trust in politicians, perceived fairness and ideology
(2009-05-04)
The idea of Personal Carbon Allowances (PCAs) was presented by the British Environment Secretary David
Miliband in 2006. Although no state is seriously developing proposals for them, they have been heavily debated
within ...