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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Emissions Trading Subject to Kantian Preferences
(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 ...
Is Fairness Blind? - The effect of framing on preferences for effort-sharing rules
(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 ...
A theoretical framework explaining the mechanisms of nudging
(2019-03)
In this paper we develop a theoretical model to clarify the underlying mechanisms that drive individual decision making and responses to behavioral interventions, such as nudges. The contribution of the paper is three-fold: ...
Paying for Mitigation: A Multiple Country Study
(2010-05-17)
Unique survey data from a contingent valuation study conducted in three different countries (China, Sweden, and the United States) were used to investigate the ordinary citizen’s willingness to pay (WTP) for reducing CO2 ...
The Effect of EU-ETS on Swedish Industry's Investment in Carbon Mitigating Technologies
(2013-04)
The European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) is so far the largest emissions trading system in the world. It covers about 12000 installations, representing approximately 45% of EU emissions of CO2, with the ...
Prices versus Standards and Firm Behavior: Evidence from an Artefactual Field Experiment
(2017-01)
We conduct an artefactual field experiment in which 164 managers and senior advisors recruited from Swedish industry were presented with a task of maximizing net revenue from
abatement investments under three different ...