Competitive politics, simplified heuristics, and preferences for public goods
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- Schläpfer, Felix & Schmitt, Marcel & Roschewitz, Anna, 2008. "Competitive politics, simplified heuristics, and preferences for public goods," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 65(3), pages 574-589, April.
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Keywords
Bounded rationality; field experiment; stated preferences; voting behaviour;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
- D70 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - General
- D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
- Q26 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Recreational Aspects of Natural Resources
- Q28 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Government Policy
- Q51 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Valuation of Environmental Effects
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2007-09-24 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-CDM-2007-09-24 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-DCM-2007-09-24 (Discrete Choice Models)
- NEP-EXP-2007-09-24 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-PBE-2007-09-24 (Public Economics)
- NEP-POL-2007-09-24 (Positive Political Economics)
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