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标题：Willingness to Pay for Individual Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions: Evidence from a Large Field Experiment
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作者：Johannes Diederich ; Timo Goeschl
期刊名称：Discussion Paper Series / Universität Heidelberg, Department of Economics
出版年度：2011
卷号：2011
出版社：Universität Heidelberg, Department of Economics
摘要：In the climate policy debate, a rhetoric has evolved that attributes a high potential to voluntary climate action. We turn to the population of Germany, the fourth largest cumulative GHG emitter, to obtain an (Internet-)representative estimate of the individual willingness to abate one ton of CO2, the equivalent of 10 percent of annual per-capita CO2 emissions. The estimate derives from a large-scale (n=2,440) framed eld experiment in which subjects choose between a guaranteed reduction of one ton of EU CO2 emissions and a randomly drawn cash award between e2 and e100. At e6.30, estimated mean WTP is considerably lower than prior hypothetical or non-representative estimates. Median WTP is non-positive. The almost bimodal nature of WTP in the population has important policy implications.
关键词：climate change mitigation; eld experiment; voluntary;climate action; willingness to pay