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Sustainable Consumption and Consumer Sovereignty
Schubert, Christian; Chai, Andreas - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2012
violating CS. This extends the range of normatively acceptable sustainability policies. …
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A constitutional economics perspective on soft paternalism
Schnellenbach, Jan - Walter Eucken Institut - 2015
verfassungsökonomischen Theorie abgeleitet. Im Ergebnis zeigt sich, dass der sogenannte 'weiche' Paternalismus nur in sehr seltenen Fällen …
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Should we sustain? And if so, sustain what? Consumption or the quality of life?
Llavador, Humberto; Roemer, John E.; Silvestre, Joaquim - Economics Department, University of California-Davis - 2012
Sustainability has been largely replaced by discounted utilitarianism in contemporary climate-change economics. Our … approach rejuvenates sustainability by expanding the conception of the quality of life, along the lines of the UN Human … substituting consumption for the quality of life. Our sustainability results carry over. As it should be expected, optimal …
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North-South Convergence and the Allocation of CO2 Emissions
Llavador, Humberto; Roemer, John E.; Silvestre, Joaquim - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2010
We postulate a two-region world, comprised of North (calibrated after the US) and South (calibrated after China). Our optimization results show the compatibility of the following three desiderata: (1) Global CO2 emissions follow a conservative path that leads to the stabilization of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547479
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Towards Sustainable Carbon Markets: Requirements for Ecologically Effective, Economically Efficient, and Socially Just Emissions Trading Schemes
Rudolph, Sven; Lenz, Christine; Volmert, Barbara; … - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2011
Domestic climate policy emissions trading schemes appear to be spreading all over the word. However, carbon markets in existence often suffer from dilution in terms of ecological effectiveness, economic efficiency, and social justice. Thus, in order to firmly base carbon markets on the main...
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Sustainability in the Presence of Global Warming: Theory and Empirics
Llavador, Humberto; Roemer, John E.; Silvestre, Joaquim - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2011
sustainability. With respect to the inter-regional issue, we do not take a fundamentally normative approach, but rather a political …
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North-South convergence and the allocation of CO2 emissions
Llavador, Humberto; Roemer, John E.; Silvestre, Joaquim - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2010
We postulate a two-region world, comprised of North (calibrated after the US) and South (calibrated after China). Our optimization results show the compatibility of the following three desiderata: (1) Global CO2 emissions follow a conservative path that leads to the stabilization of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680902
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The impact of market innovations on the evolution of norms: the sustainability case
Müller, Stephan; Wangenheim, Georg von - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2014
That institutions matter is widely accepted among economists and so are social norms as an important category of informal institutions. Social norms matter in many economic situations, but in particular for markets. The economic literature has studied the interrelation between markets and social...
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Consumer confusion over the profusion of eco-labels: Lessons from a double differentiation model
Brécard, Dorothée - In: Resource and Energy Economics 37 (2014) C, pp. 64-84
How are eco-label strategies affected by consumer confusion arising from the profusion of eco-labels? This article provides a theoretical insight into this issue using a double differentiation framework. We assume that consumers perceive a label as a sign of quality compared to an unlabeled...
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Consumer misperception of eco-labels, green market structure and welfare
Brécard, Dorothée - French Association of Environmental and Resource … - 2015
How does consumer misperception of competing eco-labels affect environmental and economic efficiency of eco-labels? This article provides a theoretical insight into this issue by using a double-differentiation model, where three products are potentially in competition: an unlabeled product and...
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