Effects of carbon reduction labels: evidence from scanner data

Autor: Jibonayan Raychaudhuri, Béatrice Roussillon, Mika Kortelainen
Přispěvatelé: Government Institute for Economic Research (vatt), Department of Economics, University of Manchester [Manchester], School of Economics, University of East Anglia [Norwich] (UEA), Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquée de Grenoble (GAEL), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Counterfactual thinking
Economics and Econometrics
Scanner
05 social sciences
chemistry.chemical_element
Carbon label
JEL: L - Industrial Organization/L.L1 - Market Structure
Firm Strategy
and Market Performance/L.L1.L15 - Information and Product Quality • Standardization and Compatibility
JEL: D - Microeconomics/D.D8 - Information
Knowledge
and Uncertainty/D.D8.D83 - Search • Learning • Information and Knowledge • Communication • Belief • Unawareness
JEL: Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics • Environmental and Ecological Economics/Q.Q5 - Environmental Economics/Q.Q5.Q54 - Climate • Natural Disasters and Their Management • Global Warming
[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance
General Business
Management and Accounting
Reduction (complexity)
chemistry.chemical_compound
JEL: D - Microeconomics/D.D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics/D.D1.D12 - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
chemistry
0502 economics and business
Econometrics
Economics
050202 agricultural economics & policy
050207 economics
Marketing
Carbon
Control methods
Zdroj: Economic Inquiry
Economic Inquiry, Wiley, 2016, 54 (2), pp.1167-1187. ⟨10.1111/ecin.12278⟩
University of Turku
ISSN: 0095-2583
1465-7295
DOI: 10.1111/ecin.12278⟩
Popis: We investigate the effects of carbon reduction labels using a detailed scanner data set. Using a difference-in-differences estimation strategy, we find that having a carbon label has no impact on detergent prices or demand. We also investigate possible heterogeneous effects of carbon labels using the synthetic control method. We find no evidence to indicate that the prices for the counterfactual detergents without the label would have been any different from the prices of the carbon-labeled detergents. We investigate the reasons for these results and conclude that the specific design of the carbon label is responsible for its lack of success. (JEL D12, D83, L15, Q54)
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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