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Are They Watching You and Does It Matter? - Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
(2010-06)In a natural field experiment, we tested whether being alone or in a group had an effect on prosocial behavior as expressed in donations to a recreational park. We also explored whether the presence of people exogenous to ... -
Social preferences in childhood and adolescence - A large-scale experiment
(2010-06)Social preferences have been shown to be an important determinant of economic decision making for many adults. We present a large-scale experiment with 883 children and adolescents, aged eight to seventeen years. Participants ... -
The Effects of an Environmental Policy on Consumers: Lessons from the Chinese Plastic Bag Regulation
(2010-06-03)To reduce plastic bag litter, China introduced a nationwide regulation requiring all retailers to charge for plastic shopping bags on June 1, 2008. By using the policy implementation as a natural experiment and collecting ... -
Don’t Tell Me What to Do, Tell Me Who to Follow! - Field Experiment Evidence on Voluntary Donations
(2010-06-02)We conducted a field experiment in a protected area to explore the effects of conformity to a social reference versus a comparable, but imposed, suggested donation. As observed before, we see visitors conforming to the ... -
Punishment Cannot Sustain Cooperation in a Public Good Game with Free-Rider Anonymity
(2010-05-19)Individuals often have legitimate but publicly unobservable reasons for not partaking in cooperative social endeavours. This means others who lack legitimate reasons may then have the opportunity to behave uncooperatively, ... -
Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Intervention
(2010-05-18)Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three alternative policy interventions to promote women in competitions: Quotas, Preferential Treatment, and ... -
Does disclosure crowd out cooperation?
(2010-05-18)This paper investigates whether disclosure crowds out pro-social behavior using a public goods experiment. In a between-subject design, we investigate different degrees of disclosure. We find a small positive but insignificant ... -
Pursuing the Wrong Options? Adjustment Costs and the Relationship between Uncertainty and Capital Accumulation
(2010-05-17)Abel and Eberly (1999) show that the effect of uncertainty on long run capital accumulation is ambiguous in a real options model with irreversible investment. We show that a higher level of uncertainty tends to ... -
Conditional Investment-Cash Flow Sensitivities and Financing Constraints
(2010-05-17)We study the sensitivity of investment to cash flow conditional on measures of q in an adjustment costs framework with costly external nance. We present a benchmark model in which this conditional investment-cash ... -
Paying for Mitigation: A Multiple Country Study
(2010-05-17)Unique survey data from a contingent valuation study conducted in three different countries (China, Sweden, and the United States) were used to investigate the ordinary citizen’s willingness to pay (WTP) for reducing CO2 ... -
Reconciling Pro-Social vs. Selfish Behavior - Evidence for the Role of Self-Control
(2010-05-10)We test the proposition that individuals may experience a self-control conflict between short-term temptation to be selfish and better judgment to act pro-socially. Using a dictator game and a public goods game, we manipulated ... -
Taxes, Permits and Costly Policy Response to Technological Change
(2010-05-10)In this paper we analyze the e ects of the choice of price (taxes) versus quantity (tradable permits) instruments on the policy response to technological change. We show that if policy responses incur transactional and ... -
Can Stated Preference Methods Accurately Predict Responses to Environmental Policies? The Case of a Plastic Bag Regulation in China
(2010-05-06)This study investigates the validity of using stated preference (SP) estimates to predict policy effects on plastic bag consumption. Before implementation of a plastic bag regulation, when bags were still free of charge, ... -
HEALTH INVESTMENTS UNDER RISK AND AMBIGUITY
(2010-05-04)This paper discusses how a decision maker should deal with uncertainty, both in the sense of a well-known probability distribution of different outcomes and as a situation where also the probability distribution is unknown. ... -
Renewable Energy Expansion and the Value of Balance Regulation Power
(2010-05-04)To achieve a stable and reliable electricity supply, efficient provision of reserve capacity or, more generally, ancillary services is crucial. Because of the expansion of wind power with random variation in supply, and ... -
Land Certification and International Migration: Evidence from Mexico
(2010-04-19)In this paper we ask whether there is a relationship between property rights and international migration. In order to identify the impact of property rights, we consider a country-wide land certi cation program, which ... -
Psychological pressure in competitive environments: Evidence from a randomized natural experiment: Comment
(2010-03-31)Apesteguia and Palacios-Huerta (forthcoming) report for a sample of 129 shootouts from various seasons in ten different competitions that teams kicking first in soccer penalty shootouts win significantly more often than ... -
Risk-taking middle-borns: A study on birth- order and risk preferences
(2010-03-29)We analyze the impacts of birth order and presence/absence of siblings on risk preferences with respect to economic, health/safety, and sport/lifestyle related risks. We study both the answer to a hypothetical lottery ... -
Is Fairness Blind? - The effect of framing on preferences for effort-sharing rules
(2010-03-29)By using a choice experiment, this paper focuses on citizens’ preferences for effort-sharing rules of how carbon abatement should be shared among countries. We find that Swedes do not rank the rule favoring their own ... -
Guilt from Promise-Breaking and Trust in Markets for Expert Services – Theory and Experiment
(2010-03-17)We examine the influence of guilt and trust on the performance of credence goods markets. An expert can make a promise to a consumer first, whereupon the consumer can express her trust by paying an interaction price ...