Ethical Consumption and Social Context: Experimental Evidence from Germany and the United States
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ethical consumption; choice experiment; framing effect; social context; social norms;All these keywords.
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2014-05-17 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-DCM-2014-05-17 (Discrete Choice Models)
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