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Does Supporting Passenger Railways Reduce Road Traffic Externalities?

Lalive, Rafael; Luechinger, Simon; Schmutzler, Armin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

reduce the number of severe road traffic accidents, carbon monoxide, nitrogen monoxide, nitrogen dioxide pollution and infant …

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Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Health Costs of Particulates and SO2

De Paula, Áureo; Halliday, Timothy J.; Lynham, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Kilauea volcano is the largest stationary source of SO2 pollution in the United States of America. Moreover, the SO2 … pollution variation to estimate the impact of particulate matter and SO2 on emergency room admissions and costs in the state of … evidence that particulate pollution increases pulmonary-related hospitalization. Specifically, a one standard deviation …

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Sources of Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries

Broner, Fernando A; Bustos, Paula; Carvalho, Vasco M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental …. We propose an instrument for environmental regulation based on meteorological determinants of pollution dispersion … identified by the atmospheric pollution literature. We find that the effect of environmental regulation on the pattern of trade …

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Do Consumers Care About How Prices Are Set?

Courty, Pascal; Pagliero, Mario - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Using a survey approach, we ask consumers to reveal their preferences over pricing schemes that may differ in terms of the average price of consumption, the amount of price variation, and the probability of being rationed. We find that consumers dislike pricing schemes that vary prices more but...

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Some Social Welfare Implications of Behavioural Preferences

Gallice, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We investigate how the assumption that individuals are characterized by some recent forms of behavioural preferences changes the analysis of an otherwise classical welfare problem, namely the optimal allocation of a scarce resource among a finite number of claimants. We consider two preference...

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Organizations, Diffused Pivotality and Immoral Outcomes

Falk, Armin; Szech, Nora - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper studies how organizational design affects moral outcomes. Subjects face the decision to either kill mice for money or to save mice. We compare a Baseline treatment where subjects are fully pivotal to a Diffused-Pivotality treatment where subjects simultaneously choose in groups of...

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Loss Aversion and Consumption Choice: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Karle, Heiko; Kirchsteiger, Georg; Peitz, Martin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

In this paper we analyze a consumer choice model with price uncertainty, loss aversion, and expectation-based reference points. The implications of this model are tested in an experiment in which participants have to make a consumption choice between two sandwiches. We make use of the fact that...

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Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability?

Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Is the way that people make risky choices, or tradeoffs over time, related to cognitive ability? This paper investigates whether there is a link between cognitive ability, risk aversion, and impatience, using a representative sample of the population and incentive compatible measures. We conduct...

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Explorations of the Effect of Experience on Preferences for a Health-Care Service

Neuman, Einat; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

The standard assumption in economic theory is that preferences do not change as a result of experience with the …

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Price Variation Antagonism and Firm Pricing Policies

Courty, Pascal; Pagliero, Mario - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Pricing schemes that vary prices in response to demand shocks may antagonize consumers and reduce demand. At the same time, consumers may take advantage of the opportunities offered by price changes. Overall, the net impact of varying price on demand is ambiguous. We investigate the issue...

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