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Endogenous Norm Formation over the Life Cycle. The Case of Tax Evasion
(2011-06)This paper offers an explanation to why the general observation that elderly hold stronger moral attitudes than young ones may be an age rather than a cohort effect. We apply mechanisms from social psychology to explain ... -
Manipulating the rural landscape: Villagisation and income generation in Rwanda
(2011-06)The aim of the present paper is to investigate whether households relocated to governmentbuilt village settlements, as part of Rwanda’s Villagisation programme ‘Imidugudu’), diversify into non-farm income-generating ... -
Nudging Boserup? The impact of fertilizer subsidies on investment in soil and water conservation
(2011-06)The new fertilizer subsidies in Sub-Saharan Africa are intended to increase agricultural production and ensure fertilizer market development. Fertilizer adoption requires complementary inputs such as investment in soil and ... -
What do respondents bring into contingent valuation? A comparison of monetary and labour payment vehicles
(2011-06)In the Contingent Valuation Method (CVM), both the goods being valued and the payment vehicles used to value them are mostly hypothetical. However, although numerous studies have examined the impact of experience with the ... -
Unequal Property Rights: A study of land right inequalities in Rwanda
(2011-06)The aim of the present paper is to examine the existence and patterns of systematic within-country inequalities in effective land rights in Rwanda. The results of empirical estimations drawing on data on the land tenure ... -
Fiscal Capacity and Government Accountability in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2011-06)Historical evidence from the developed world suggests that the expansion of the mod- ern states’ fiscal capacity (i. e. its ability to tax citizens) eventually led to more democratic and less corrupt governments. Since ... -
Attitudes to Personal Carbon Allowances
(2011-05)A personal carbon allowance (PCA) scheme targets emissions from individual consumption and allocates allowances directly to individuals by dividing the carbon budget on a per capita basis. In this study we analyse the ... -
An Electricity Trading System with Tradable Green Certificates and CO2 Emission Allowances
(2011-05)Combinations of various policy instruments to deal with the threat of cli- mate change are used throughout the world. The aim of this article is to investigate an electricity market with two di¤erent policy instruments ... -
Funding a New Bridge in Rural Vietnam: A field experiment on conditional cooperation and default contributions
(2011-05)The ability to provide public goods is essential for economic and social development, yet there is very limited empirical evidence regarding contributions to a real local public good in developing countries. This paper ... -
Can Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment of REDD+ Improve Forest Governance?
(2011-04)The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility has recently proposed the application of strategic environmental social assessment (SESA) for incorporating environmental and social considerations in the preparation of REDD+ ... -
Can Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment of REDD+ Improve Forest Governance?
(2011-04)The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility has recently proposed the application of strategic environmental social assessment (SESA) for incorporating environmental and social considerations in the preparation of REDD+ ... -
Attitudes to Personal Carbon Allowances
(2011-05)A personal carbon allowance (PCA) scheme targets emissions from individual consumption and allocates allowances directly to individuals by dividing the carbon budget on a per capita basis. In this study we analyse the ... -
An Electricity Trading System with Tradable Green Certificates and CO2 Emission Allowances
(2011-05)Combinations of various policy instruments to deal with the threat of climate change are used throughout the world. The aim of this article is to investigate an electricity market with two di¤erent policy instruments, Tradable ... -
Funding a New Bridge in Rural Vietnam: A field experiment on conditional cooperation and default contributions
(2011-05)The ability to provide public goods is essential for economic and social development, yet there is very limited empirical evidence regarding contributions to a real local public good in developing countries. This paper ... -
Subjective well-being among preadolescents - Evidence from urban China
(2011-05)We examine what factors are correlated with subjective well-being among Chinese preadolescents. In particular, we investigate whether preadolescents’ subjective well-being is correlated with their parents’ subjective ... -
EU Enlargement, Parallel Trade and Price Competition in Pharmaceuticals. What's to Blame? Derogation or Perception?
(2011-05)Given the cost of trade and availability of pharmaceuticals, the driving force for parallel trade is the price difference between the source (exporting) and the destination (importing) country. An increase in the price ... -
Compassion and Cost. The Dual Role of Reference Pricing
(2011-05)Providing health insurance involves a trade-off between the benefits from risk spreading and the costs due to moral hazard. Focusing on pharmaceuticals consumption, this paper examines theoretically whether reference ... -
Policies for second generation biofuels: Current status and future challenges
(2011-05)This report reviews the current status of second generation biofuels. First generation biofuels continue to be substantially subsidized, and this has contributed to the increasing use of such fuel. However, recent studies ... -
Parallel imports and mandatory substitution reform: A kick or a muff for price competition in pharmaceuticals
(2011-04)What has been the effect of competition from parallel imports on prices of locally-sourced onpatent drugs? Did the 2002 Swedish mandatory substitution reform increase this competition? To answer these questions, we carried ...