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The Willingness to Pay-Willingness to Accept Gap Revisited: The Role of Emotions and Moral Satisfaction
(2011-04)
While many earlier studies have found that people’s maximum willingness to pay for having a good is often substantially lower than their minimum willingness to accept not having it, more recent experimental evidence suggests ...
Parallel imports and mandatory substitution reform: A kick or a muff for price competition in pharmaceuticals
(2011-04)
What has been the effect of competition from parallel imports on prices of locally-sourced onpatent drugs? Did the 2002 Swedish mandatory substitution reform increase this competition? To answer these questions, we carried ...
Can Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment of REDD+ Improve Forest Governance?
(2011-04)
The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility has recently proposed the application of strategic environmental social assessment (SESA) for incorporating environmental and social considerations in the preparation of REDD+ ...
Endogenous Norm Formation over the Life Cycle. The Case of Tax Evasion
(2011-06)
This paper offers an explanation to why the general observation that elderly hold stronger moral attitudes than young ones may be an age rather than a cohort effect. We apply mechanisms from social psychology to explain ...
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 ...
Institution building with limited resources: Establishing a supreme audit institution in Rwanda
(2011-01)
This study is about institution building with limited resources. Through a case study of
the establishment of a supreme audit institution (SAI) in Rwanda, we examine the tensions
between institutional first-best benchmarks ...
Unequal Property Rights: A study of land right inequalities in Rwanda
(2011-06)
The aim of the present paper is to examine the existence and patterns of systematic within-country inequalities in effective land rights in Rwanda. The results of empirical estimations drawing on data on the land tenure ...
Subjective well-being among preadolescents - Evidence from urban China
(2011-05)
We examine what factors are correlated with subjective well-being among Chinese preadolescents. In particular, we investigate whether preadolescents’ subjective well-being is correlated with their parents’ subjective ...
Can Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment of REDD+ Improve Forest Governance?
(2011-04)
The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility has recently proposed the application of strategic environmental social assessment (SESA) for incorporating environmental and social considerations in the preparation of REDD+ ...
Compassion and Cost. The Dual Role of Reference Pricing
(2011-05)
Providing health insurance involves a trade-off between the benefits from risk spreading
and the costs due to moral hazard. Focusing on pharmaceuticals consumption, this paper
examines theoretically whether reference ...