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Back To Bentham: Should We? Large‐Scale Comparison of Decision versus Experienced Utility for Income‐Leisure Preferences
(2015-02)Subjective well‐being (SWB) is increasingly used as a way to measure individual well‐being. Interpreted as "experienced utility", it has been compared to "decision utility" using specific experiments (Kahneman et al., 1997) ... -
On The Strategic Effect of International Permits Trading on Local Pollution: The Case of Multiple Pollutants
(2015-02)We introduce a model of strategic environmental policy where two firms compete à la Cournot in a third market under the presence of multiple pollutants. Two types of pollutants are introduced, a local and a transboundary ... -
Carbon Pricing: Transaction Costs of Emissions Trading vs. Carbon Taxes
(2015-01)In this paper we empirically compare the transaction costs from monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of two environmental regulations directed to cost-efficiently reduce greenhouse gas emissions: a carbon dioxide ... -
The Harrington Paradox Squared
(2015-01)Harrington (1988) shows that state-dependent enforcement based on past compliance records provides an explanation to the seemingly contradictory observation that firms' compliance with environmental regulations is high ... -
Importing High Food Prices by Exporting: Rice Prices in Lao PDR
(2014-11)This paper shows how a developing country, Lao PDR, imports high glutinous rice prices by exporting its staple food to neighboring countries, Vietnam and Thailand. Lao PDR has extensive export controls on rice, generating ... -
Paternalism against Veblen: Optimal Taxation and Non-Respected Preferences for Social Comparisons
(2014-11)This paper deals with optimal income taxation and relative consumption under a welfarist government that fully respects people’s preferences and a paternalist government that does not share the consumer preference for ... -
Genuine Saving and Conspicuous Consumption
(2014-11)Much evidence suggests that people are concerned with their relative consumption, i.e., their consumption in relation to the consumption of others. Yet, the social costs of conspicuous consumption have so far played little ... -
Reciprocity Networks and the Participation Problem
(2014-08)Reciprocity can be a powerful motivation for human behaviour. Scholars argue that it is relevant in the context of private provision of public goods. We examine whether reciprocity can resolve the associated coordination ... -
Remittances after natural disasters: Evidence from the 2004 Indian tsunami
(2014-08)We examine the impact of the 2004 Indian tsunami on international remittance transfers using aggregate country data and synthetic control methodology. This procedure implies identifying the causal impact of the disaster ... -
State History and Economic Development: Evidence from Six Millennia
(2014-08)All since the rise of the first civilizations, economic development has been closely intertwined with the evolution of states. In this paper, we contribute to the literature on state history and long-run economic development ... -
Atmospheric Pollution in Rapidly Growing Urban Centers: Spatial Policies and Land Use Patterns
(2014-08)We study the optimal and equilibrium distribution of industrial and residential land in a given region. The trade-o¤ between the agglomeration and dispersion forces, in the form of pollution from stationary forces, production ... -
Keeping others in our mind or in our heart? Distribution games under cognitive load
(2014-06)It has recently been argued that giving is spontaneous while greed is calculated (Rand et al. 2012). If greed is calculated we would expect that cognitive load, which is assumed to reduce the influence of cognitive ... -
Does immigration affect welfare state generosity? Quasi-experimental evidence
(2014-06)This note studies the impact of immigration on welfare state generosity in 12 Western European countries. In estimations not coping with the possible endogeneity problem, there are indications of a negative relationship ... -
Clientelism and ethnic division
(2014-06)Abstract: In light of the empirical evidence on clientelism and ethno-regional favouritism in African politics, the present paper examines the relationship between ethnic divisions and clientelism. Specifically, we ask ... -
NIMBY or YIMBY? Municipalities' reaction to disaster waste from the Great East Japan Earthquake
(2014-06)This study investigates the determinants of transfer of waste between the affected areas and other municipalities that resulted from the Great East Japan Earthquake. In particular, we investigate to what extent economic ... -
Understanding Peer Effects: On the Nature, Estimation and Channels of Peer Effects
(2014-06)This paper provides evidence on ability peer effects in university education. Identification comes from the random assignment of students to sections. We find that students on average benefit from better-ability peers. ... -
Household fuel choice in urban China: A random effect generalized probit analysis
(2014-05)Using seven rounds of household survey data that span more than a decade, this paper analyzes the determinants of household fuel choice in urban China. Unlike the existing studies, we use an empirical strategy that takes ... -
Confirmation: What's in the evidence?
(2014-05)The difference between accommodated evidence (i.e. when evidence is known first and a hypothesis is proposed to explain and fit the observations) and predicted evidence (i.e., when evidence verifies the prediction of ... -
Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination
(2014-05)The discrimination literature treats outcomes as relative. But does a differential arise because agents discriminate against others—exophobia—or because they favor their own kind—endophilia? Using a field experiment that ... -
Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants
(2014-04)This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fl uc- tuations in macroeconomic conditions in their country of origin. Using the German Socio- Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2009 ...