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This paper examines the concern for relative standing among rural households in China. We used a survey-experimental method to measure to what extent poor Chinese farmers care about their relative…

21 April 2010 | Peer Reviewed | China, Sweden

How can economics best contribute to the scientific and public debates? Professor Thomas Sterner, University of Gothenburg, together with Nicholas Stern, who wrote the The Stern Review, and Nobel…

25 February 2010 | Book Chapter | Sweden

A new EfD/RFF Book titled "Land Reforms in Asia and Africa - Impacts on Poverty and Natural Resource Management" is planned for 2012. Editors are Professors Stein Holden and Keijiro Otsuka. The…

28 January 2010 | EfD/RFF Book | China, Sweden, Ethiopia, South Africa

This article, "Climate Change Abatement: Not "Stern" Enough?", by Thomas Sterner and Dallas Burtraw, is forthcoming in a book, Parry and Day, eds. "100 Policy Commentaries on Environmental, Energy…

30 September 2009 | Book Chapter | Sweden

Economic theory predicts that open access leads to myopic behaviour of fishermen, while improving property rights leads to more long-term decisions of fishermen. In this study, we report the…

11 June 2009 | Report | Sweden

The author looks at the effects of the choice between taxes and permits on the pattern of adoption of a new emissions abatement technology. The regulator determines the optimal ex-post amount of…

22 October 2008 | EfD Discussion Paper | Central America, Sweden

When the Stern Review challenged the conventional wisdom and called for strong and immediate action on climate change, reactions were initially fierce. However, the ensuing debate has shown a new…

17 July 2008 | Peer Reviewed | Sweden

This paper discusses whether quick fixes for environmental problems is part of the solution, or part of the problem. HUMANITY IS increasingly confronted with rapidly emerging large-scale environmental…

1 December 2006 | Peer Reviewed | Sweden

We use firm-level data to study the adoption of Environmental Management Practices (EMPs) in the most polluting industrial sectors in Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia during…

1 January 2006 | Discussion Paper | Sweden

The proportion of money sent, which is typically assumed to reflect trust, decreased significantly as the stake size was increased in a trust game conducted in rural Bangladesh. Nevertheless, even…

1 September 2005 | Peer Reviewed | Sweden