This paper examines the role of status acquisition as a motive for giving in voluntary contributions to public goods. In particular, every donor's status is given by the difference between his contribution and that of the other donor. Specifically, I show that contributors give more than in...

We examine how an extreme climate event affects the incentives of regulators to invest in adaptation measures that reduce the impact on firms production costs, and how this investment affects environmental policy and firms incentives to invest in abatement. Different government agencies...