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The Economics of Warm Glow: A Note on Consumer's Behavior and Public Policy Implications

Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.; Onofri, Laura - 2004

The paper focuses on the ongoing debate on non-market valuation, including the valuation environmental goods, and the opportunity to use contingent valuation for policy guidance. In fact, contingent valuation critics argue that reported willingness to pay answers do not reflect real economic...

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Willingness to Pay for Individual Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions: Evidence from a Large Field Experiment

Diederich, Johannes; Goeschl, Timo - 2011

In the climate policy debate, a rhetoric has evolved that attributes a high potential to "voluntary climate action". We turn to the population of Germany, the fourth largest cumulative GHG emitter, to obtain an Internet-)representative estimate of the individual willingness to abate one ton of...

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Umwelteinstellungen, umweltbewusster Konsum und Umweltmotivation: Eine Moderatoranalyse

Tigcheloven, Carina; FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie & … - 2023

Umweltbelastung. Doch obwohl die Folgen des Klimawandels allgemein bekannt sind und Umweltschutz in der Bevölkerung als wichtig …

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Green hypocrisy? Environmental attitudes and residential space heating expenditure

Traynor, Laura; Lange, Ian A.; Moro, Mirko - 2012

In the UK, the largest proportion of household energy use is for space heating. Popular media make claims of a green hypocrisy: groups which have the strongest attitude towards the environment have the highest emissions. This study examines whether environmental attitudes and behaviours are...

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Policy instruments for creating markets for biodiversity: Certification and ecolabing

Nunes, Paulo A. L. D.; Riyanto, Yohanes E. - 2001

This paper provides an economic evaluation of certification and ecolabeling as an important policy instrument for … biodiversity (and environmental friendly) market supply and demand mechanisms; (c) the impact of certification practices in the … certification and ecolabeling policy instruments alone are not sufficient to guarantee a successful creation of markets for …

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Green procurement through Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification in the private sector: Perceptions and willingness to buy of private companies from Romania

Petrescu, Dacinia Crina; Bran, Florina; Radulescu, … - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 22 (2020) 53, pp. 42-56

Companies can contribute to the achievement of the sustainability goals through their procurement function when they opt for green procurement. In the current paper, the authors focused on the procurement of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified products. Having known that attitudes...

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Environmental quality provision and eco-labelling: Some issues

Valentini, Laura - 2005

This paper is a literature survey of some relevant issues arising from environmental quality provision and eco-labelling schemes. First of all it is shown how the two topics are strictly related. Firms adopting a production process (or producing a good) more environmentally friendly than others...

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Reputation and Certification in Online Shops

Hackl, Franz; Kügler, Agnes; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2011

We investigate the impact of self-organized reputation versus certification by an independent institution on demand for …

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Separating Equilibria with Imperfect Certification

Strausz, Roland - 2010

Viscusi (1978) shows how, in markets with quality uncertainty, perfect certification results in separation from top … down due to an unraveling process similar to Akerlof (1970). De and Nabar (1991) argue that imperfect certification …' buying decision explicitly, a separating equilibrium with imperfect certification does exist. …

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Environmental Policy, Firm Location, And Product Differentiation: The Role of Green Preferences and Inter-firm Pollution

Kuhn, Michael - 1997

Endogenous firm location is analyzed in a discrete two-region-two-firm model of product differentiation. In a non-cooperative game, two regional governments first decide on the imposition (or lifting) of domestic production standards; firms then choose technology (clean or polluting), location...

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