| Autor: |
Jakob, Michael, Kübler, Dorothea, Steckel, Jan Christoph, Veldhuizen, Roel van |
| Přispěvatelé: |
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH |
| Rok vydání: |
2016 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
SP II 2016-215, Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Markt und Entscheidung, Abteilung Verhalten auf Märkten, 26 |
| Druh dokumentu: |
Arbeitspapier<br />working paper |
| Popis: |
Although market-based environmental policy instruments feature prominently in economic theory and are widely employed, they often meet with public resistance. We argue that such resistance may be driven by a feeling of moral responsibility where citizens prefer to tackle environmental problems themselves, rather than delegating the task to others by means of a market mechanism. Using a laboratory experiment that isolates moral responsibility from alternative explanations, we show that moral responsibility induces participants to incur a sizable cost on themselves as well as on other participants. We discuss the implications of this finding for the design and implementation of environmental policies. |
| Databáze: |
SSOAR – Social Science Open Access Repository |
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