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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Does experience eliminate the effect of a default option? - A field experiment on CO2-offsetting for air transport
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Common ground for effort sharing? Preferred principles for distributing climate mitigation efforts
(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 ...
To Trade or Not to Trade: Firm-Level Analysis of Emissions Trading in Santiago, Chile
(2009-10-23)
Whether tradable permits are appropriate for use in transition and developing
economies—given special social and cultural circumstances, such as the lack of institutions and lack of expertise with market‐based policies—is ...