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We examine whether a disclosure mandate for greenhouse gas emissions creates stakeholder pressure for firms to subsequently reduce their emissions. For UK-incorporated listed firms such a mandate was adopted in 2013. Using a difference-in-differences design, we find that firms affected by the...
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With a large representative survey (N=1,128), we document that consumers are very uncertain about the emissions associated with various actions, which may affect their willingness to reduce their carbon footprint. We experimentally test two channels for the behavioural impact of such...
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based on a weighted average of expected utility (EU) and the MaxiMin criterion. I first show that more weight on the worst … case (less weight on EU) may lead to increased first period emissions. The effect of learning possibilities on emissions is …, considering prospective learning increases today s abatement effort, i.e. the irreversibility effect holds, if the weight on EU is …
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