Behavioral and Experimental Economics Can Inform Public Policy: Some Thoughts [PDF]
Experimental and behavioral economics are well established branches in the economic science. This essay presents and discusses some results and behavioral regularities from these fields which are of potential importance for public policy.
Arno Riedl
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The cocoa‐chocolate value chain faces significant environmental and social challenges, driving firms to adopt sustainability strategies ranging from individual practices to third‐party certifications. This study investigates the factors associated with these strategies by analyzing 304 cocoa‐chocolate companies using firm‐level data from the ...
Stella Marschner +3 more
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Evaluation of three behavioural economics 'nudges' on grocery and convenience store sales of promoted nutritious foods. [PDF]
Public Health Nutr, 2019 Chapman LE +4 more
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THE CONCEPT OF COMPARISON INCOME: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE [PDF]
Theories of social comparison have a long presence in the social sciences and have provided many useful insights. In economics, the idea of comparison, aspiration or relative income belongs to this theoretical framework.
Drakopoulos, Stavros A.
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
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A behavioural economics approach to improving healthy food selection among food pantry clients. [PDF]
Public Health Nutr, 2019 Caspi CE +7 more
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Policy Implications of a Behavioural Economics Analysis of Land Use Determinants in Rural Scotland [PDF]
The paper analyses the land use behaviour of Scottish land managers and the factors influencing it in the current context of the EU rural land use policies.
Barnes, Andrew P. +5 more
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
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Behavioural Development Economics: Lessons from field labs in the developing world [PDF]
Explanations of poverty, growth and development more generally depend on the assumptions made about individual preferences and the willingness to engage in strategic behaviour.
Jeffery Carpenter, Juan Camilo Cardenas
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Who Are the Consumers of European Farmers' Markets? A Cross‐Country Analysis
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT With substantial growth in the number of farmers' markets (FMs) in developed countries, the number of consumers visiting FMs is also increasing. This study comparatively assesses the consumers of FMs in three European countries where FMs traditionally play a distinctive role in food supply chains.
Áron Török +6 more
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