Informing the Uninformed, Sensitizing the Informed: The Two Sides of Consumer Environmental Awareness
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- Dorothée Brécard & Mireille Chiroleu-Assouline, 2025. "Informing the uninformed, sensitizing the informed: The two sides of consumer environmental awareness," PSE Working Papers halshs-04883877, HAL.
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Keywords
information campaign; NGO campaign; environmental awareness; environmental quality; vertical product differentiation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
- D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- L15 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Information and Product Quality
- Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2025-02-17 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-ENE-2025-02-17 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2025-02-17 (Environmental Economics)
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