Instrument Choice and Motivation: Evidence from a Climate Change Experiment

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 195-212

  Goeschl, Timo ^a   Perino, Grischa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Externalities; Instrument choice; Motivation crowding

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; MOTIVATION;

COGNITIVE THEORY; EMISSION STANDARD; EXTERNALITIES; INSTRUMENT CHOICES; INTRINSIC MOTIVATION; MOTIVATION CROWDING; PUBLIC INTEREST; SHORT TERM;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION; MATE CHOICE; TRADE-OFF;

EID: 84860757998     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-011-9524-4     Document Type: Article

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