Ethical goods are increasingly available in markets for conventional goods giving pro-ethically motivated consumers a convenient option to contribute to public goods. In a previous experiment we explored the behavioural relevance of impure public goods in a within-subject setting and observed...

Ethical goods are increasingly available in markets for conventional goods giving pro-ethically motivated consumers a convenient option to contribute to public goods. In a previous experiment we explored the behavioural relevance of impure public goods in a within-subject setting and observed...

An impure public good is a commodity that combines public and private characteristics in fixed proportions. Green goods such as dolphin-friendly tuna or green electricity programs provide increasings popular examples of impure goods. We design an experiment to test how the presence of impure...

An impure public good is a commodity that combines public and private characteristics in fixed proportions. Green goods such as dolphin-friendly tuna or green electricity programmes provide increasingly popular examples of impure public goods. We design an experiment to test how the presence of...

Optimal linear and non-linear taxation models represent the ends of a spectrum of constraints on feasible tax systems. The continuum in between is little explored, despite the fact that nonlinear taxation Pareto dominates linear taxation, but linear taxation is the more common. The same is true...

A theory is proposed in which preferences are conditional on reference points. Preferences conditional on any given reference point satisfy the usual assumptions of cunsumer theory. Apart from a continuity condition, the only additional restriction is to rule out cycles of pairwise choice. The...

A volume of recent experimental evidence suggests that individual preferences may not be independent of the consumer's vantage point. In particular agents may suffer from loss aversion (also known as the endowment effect and status quo bias). Allocations which appear desirable ex ante may...

Optimal linear and non-linear taxation models represent the ends of a spectrum of constraints on feasible tax systems. The continuum in between is little explored, despite the fact that nonlinear taxation Pareto dominates linear taxation, but linear taxation is the more common. The same is true...

A volume of recent experimental evidence suggests that individual preferences may not be independent of the consumer's vantage point. In particular agents may suffer from loss aversion (also known as the endowment effect and status quo bias). Allocations which appear desirable ex ante may...