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Nudging as an Environmental Policy Instrument
(2019-04)
We discuss the use of green nudges – nudges intended to reduce negative externalities – as an environmental policy instrument. A review of empirical studies reveals that green nudges can have a sizeable impact on behavior ...
Charity as Income Redistribution: A Model with Optimal Taxation, Status, and Social Stigma
(2019-09)
Our framework integrates (i) public and private redistribution, (ii) the warm glow of giving and stigma of receiving charitable donations, and (iii) status concerns emanating from social comparisons with respect to charitable ...
Does Environmental Economics Produce Aeroplanes Without Engines? - On the Need for an Environmental Social Science
(2011-01)
In this paper we first critically review conventional environmental economics. We conclude that the standard theory offers too narrow a perspective for many real world problems and that many theories are not empirically ...
Animal Welfare and Social Decisions
(2011-01)
This paper analyzes the standard welfare economics assumption of anthropocentric welfarism, i.e., that only human well-being counts intrinsically. Alternatives where animal welfare matters intrinsically are explored ...
Genuine Saving and Conspicuous Consumption
(2014-11)
Much evidence suggests that people are concerned with their relative consumption, i.e., their consumption in relation to the consumption of others. Yet, the social costs of conspicuous consumption have so far played little ...
Publicly Provided Private Goods and Optimal Taxation when Consumers Have Positional Preferences
(2013-03)
This paper analyzes optimal differential commodity taxation, together with optimal nonlinear income taxation, in order to deal with positional preferences. It also derives the optimal public provision of private goods both ...