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This paper considers the role which selfish, moral and social incentives and pressures play in explaining the extent to which stated choices over pro-environment behaviours vary across individuals. The empirical context is choices over household waste contracts and recycling actions in Poland. A...
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Free riding problems can be more severe in multiple-person social dilemmas than in two-person dilemmas, since agents can hide their actions behind the veil of anonymity. In this paper, we use field data on waste sorting to study the effect of visibility in social dilemmas. We compare the sorting...
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Free riding problems can be more severe in multiple-person social dilemmas than in two-person dilemmas, since agents can hide their actions behind the veil of anonymity. In this paper, we use field data on waste sorting to study the effect of visibility in social dilemmas. We compare the sorting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010781641
This paper considers the role which selfish, moral and social incentives and pressures play in explaining the extent to which stated choices over pro-environment behaviours vary across individuals. The empirical context is choices over household waste contracts and recycling actions in Poland. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010789230
This paper examines whether monetary incentives are an effective tool for increasing domestic waste sorting. We exploit the exogenous variation in the waste management policies experienced during the years 1999-2008 by the 95 municipalities in the district of Treviso (Italy). We estimate with a...
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This paper examines whether monetary incentives are an effective tool for increasing domestic waste sorting. We exploit the exogenous variation in the pricing systems experienced during the 1999-2008 decade by the 95 municipalities in the district of Treviso (Italy). We estimate with a panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008866017
” economy for a given interest rate and no pollution externality. Second, once we introduce a collapse risk whose hazard rate is … a function of the pollution stock, multiplicative preferences recommend a much more stringent policy response. An …
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the allowable level of the observed (deterministic) point source pollution load. The permit for unobservable and … stochastic nonpoint source pollution cannot be defined in this way. One market bases the nonpoint permit on expected nonpoint … pollution and uses a trading ratio between the two pollution types to manage stochasticity. This model follows existing point …
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