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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 ...
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, ...
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 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 ...
Climate Change in a Public Goods Game: Investment Decision in Mitigation versus Adaptation
(2009-12-08)
We use behavioral and experimental economics to study a particular aspect of the economics of
climate change: the potential tradeoff between countries’ investments in mitigation versus adaptation.
While mitigation of ...
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 ...
Habit Formation in the Environmental Quality: Dynamic Optimal Environmental Taxation
(2003)
In this article we propose a model in which individuals experience
habit formation in environmental quality. Further, a
consumption good causes a negative external effect on the environment.
The intertemporal utility ...
Natural Resource Dependency and Quality of Government
(2009-12-04)
This paper introduces quality of government rather than regime type as dependent variable in
studies of the political effects of natural resources. It consists of two parts. First, it theorizes
the role of fiscal dependency ...