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| Pongiglione, Francesca. |
| In this essay, three separate yet interconnected components of pro-environmental decision making are considered: (a) knowledge, in the form of basic scientific understanding and procedural knowledge, (b) risk perception, as it relates to an individual’s direct experience of climate change and (c) self-interest, either monetary or status-driven. Drawing on a variety of sources in public policy, psychology, and economics, I examine the role of these concepts in inducing or discouraging pro-environmental behavior. Past researches have often overemphasized the weight of just one of those variables in the decision making. I argue, instead, that none of them alone is capable of bringing about the behavioral change required by the environmental crisis. Evidence... |
| Tipo: Working Paper |
Palavras-chave: Individual Behavior; Climate-Change; Psychology; Uncertainty; Environmental Economics and Policy; D03; D80; Q00. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/119094 |
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| Rahman, Shaikh Mahfuzur. |
| A unique approach using a biophysical growth model from the animal science literature is used to examine optimal contract cattle feeding behavior under alternative climatic conditions. The examination of incentives and outcomes in an unusually comprehensive contract parameter and behavioral space is made possible by combining simulated feedlot and carcass performance of a large set of cattle with public price and weather data. The model uniquely fits typical risk aversion levels and rationalizes existing contract types. The results show that optimal cattle feeding contract varies with climatic condition, but there is a tendency to replace cost-of-gain contracts with yardage-feed contracts as grid pricing has emerged. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Cattle; Feeding; Contracts; Climate; Industrial Organization; D80. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61451 |
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| Dickinson, David L.; Bailey, DeeVon. |
| We employed Vickrey auctions to generate willingness-to-pay (WTP) data for red meat traceability and related product characteristics with comparable experimental auctions in the United States, Canada, the U.K., and Japan. The results show that subjects are willing to pay a nontrivial premium for traceability, but the same subjects show even higher WTP for traceability-provided characteristics like additional meat safety and humane animal treatment guarantees. The implication is that producers might be able to implement traceable meat systems profitably by tailoring the verifiable characteristics of the product to consumer preferences. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Auction experiments; Information; Red meat; Traceability; C90; D44; D80. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43480 |
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| Osgood, Daniel E.; Shirley, Kenneth E.. |
| Almost universally, implementers of index insurance for low income households have chosen to embed insurance with other interventions designed to improve productivity, with the insurance used almost entirely to make the other interventions possible. A common example is to use the insurance to allow farmers to have access to loans by reducing the probability of weather related defaults. A bundled loan/insurance implementation with overwhelming take-up rates had low insurance take-up rates when researchers unbundled the package, covering the loan default risk, so that the loans could be available without requiring insurance. If low income farmers are highly risk averse, why do they place so little value on risk reducing insurance once their access... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; International Development; D80; O12; O16; Q14. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/61166 |
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| Grusevaja, Marina. |
| Systemic economic transition is a process of determined radical institutional change, a process of building new institutions required by a market economy. Nowadays, the experience of transition countries with the implementation of new institutions could be reviewed as a method of economic development that despite similar singular steps has different effects on the domestic economic performance. The process of institutional change towards a market economy is determined by political will, thus the government plays an important role in carrying out the economic reforms. Among the variety of outcomes and effects the attention is drawn especially to economic growth that diverges significantly in different post-transition countries. The paper attempts to shed... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Institutional change; Governmental learning; Economic growth; Agribusiness; B52; D80; O43. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/115364 |
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| Kushnir, Alexey. |
| Some labor markets have recently developed formal signalling mechanisms, e.g. the signalling for interviews in the job market for new Ph.D. economists. We evaluate the effect of such mechanisms on two-sided matching markets by considering a game of incomplete information between firms and workers. Workers have almost aligned preferences over firms: each worker has “typical” commonly known preferences with probability close to one and “atypical” idiosyncratic preferences with the complementary probability close to zero. Firms have some commonly known preferences over workers. We show that the introduction of a signalling mechanism is harmful for this environment. Though signals transmit previously unavailable information, they also facilitate information... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Signaling; Cheaptalk; Matching; Environmental Economics and Policy; C72; C78; D80; J44. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/96837 |
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