Manchester Environmental Economics Workshop, 2017
“Social references and environmental and natural resource policy formation”
The workshop will bring together expertise and insights from recent international work in behavioural environmental economics. The workshop will present state-of-the-art research and discuss whether and how the interplay of social preferences, norms, financial instruments and/or institutions can affect environmental, resource and energy conservation policies.
The workshop provides a platform for researchers in environmental and resource economics who use theoretical, lab/field/choice experiments and empirical methods to examine the effect of social preferences on environmental and resource economics. By bringing these research strands together, the workshop provides an opportunity to exchange ideas, produce new research topics, share insights on how to deal with some of the methodological and conceptual challenges in these areas, and to map out a new research agenda.
Day 1 (4th May)
Session 1: 9 AM – 10:45 AM (chair: Hide-Fumi Yokoo)
9 AM – 9:30 AM: Michael Brock (University of East Anglia)
Is the Monster Green-Eyed, or just Green? Assessing the Impact of Group Cohesion and Environmental Attitudes on Energy Conservation Habits
9:30 AM – 10 AM: Hide-Fumi Yokoo (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan)
Social Comparison and Preferences toward Pro-Environmental Behavior: Theory and Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Vietnam
10 AM – 10:45 AM: Katrin Millock (Paris School of Economics)
Water inequality and conflict
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM: Coffee Break
Session 2: 11:00 AM – 1:15 PM (chair Céline Nauges)
11 AM – 11:45 PM: Jason Shogren (University of Wyoming)
Leveraging the Honor Code:Public Goods Contributions under Oath
11:45 PM – 12:15 PM: Alexandros Dimitropoulos (OECD, Paris)
Using behavioural economics to tackle environmental problems: a review of policies in OECD countries and beyond
12:15 PM – 12:45 PM: Stefan Wolf (University of Freiburg)
If Future Generations Had a Say: Experimental Evidence on Resource Sharing with Veto Power of a Future Generation
12:45 PM – 1:15 PM: Céline Nauges (Toulouse School of Economics and INRA)
Social norms information treatments in the municipal water supply sector: Much ado
about (mostly) nothing
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM: Lunch
Session 3: 2:15 PM – 4:15 PM (chair: Laure Kuhfuss)
2:15 PM – 3 PM: Timo Goeschl (Heidelberg University)
Does Climate Mitigation Start at Home?
3 PM – 3:30 PM: Prasenjit Banerjee (University of Manchester)
Decentralization, Provision of Public Good, and Politicians Motivation: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Rural India
3:30 PM – 4:15 PM: Nick Hanley and Laure Kuhfuss (University of St. Andrews)
Spatial coordination and nudges in PES uptake: an experiment
4:15 pm – 4:30 pm : coffee break
4:30 PM – 6 PM: Short Presentations (chair: Hendrik Bruns)
Katarzyna Zagórska (University of Warsaw)
Do social norms matter? Evidence from stated preference studies varying communicated social norm levels
Simon Felgendreher (University of Gothenburg)
Do consumers choose to stay ignorant?The role of information for ethically certified products
Keila Meginnis (University of Manchester)
Differences in preferences or strategic behaviour? A choice experiment on Tidal Energy in Puget Sound
Elke D. Groh (University of Kassel)
The relevance of green and regional identity for the demand for green and regional electricity tariffs: Empirical evidence from a combined priming and stated choice experiment
Marco Islam (Lund University)
Cooperating Today or Tomorrow: Public Goods and Intertemporal Choice
Hendrik Bruns (International Max-Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling, Hamburg)
Who cares who intervenes how? A framed field experiment on climate protection
Day 2 (5th May)
Session 1: 9 AM – 10:45 AM (Chair: Luca Panzone)
9 AM – 9:30 AM:
Guangqin Li (University of Sheffield and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics)
Environmental Non-governmental Organizations and Urban Environmental Governance: An Empirical Study from China
9:30 AM – 10 AM:
Luca Panzone (Newcastle University)
The Role of Moral Self-regulation and Carbon Taxation in Supermarket Shopping
10 AM – 10:45 AM
Fredrik Carlsson (University of Gothenburg)
Social norms, information diffusion and spill over effects: Evidence from a field experiment on water savings
10:45 AM – 11 AM: Coffee Break
Session 2: 11 AM – 1:15 PM (Session Chair: Stefan Ambec)
11 AM – 11:45 PM
Tim Cason (Purdue University)
Prior Interaction, Identity, and Cooperation in the Inter-Group Prisoner’s Dilemma
11:45 PM – 12:15 PM:
Ayse Gul Mermer (University of Manchester)
Choosing To Be Informed in a Centipede Game
12:15 PM – 12:45 PM
Paolo Zeppini (University of Bath)
Consumption patterns and green lifestyles
12:45 PM – 1:15 PM
Stefan Ambec (Toulouse School of Economics)
Environmental Policy with green consumerism
1:15 PM – 2:15 PM: Lunch
Session 3: 2:15 PM – 4:15 PM (Session Chair: Alistair Ulph)
2:15 PM – 3 PM
Daan van Soest (Tilburg University)
Habits, intrinsic motivation and environmental policy: A field experiment on household waste sorting
3 pm – 3:30 pm: Peter Howley (University of York)
Can clean air make you happy? Examining the effect of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) on life satisfaction
3:30 PM – 4:15 PM
Alistair Ulph (University of Manchester)
A Theory of Consumption Norms and Implications for Environmental Policy
4:15 pm – 4:30 pm: coffee break
4:30 PM – 5:15 PM: Short Presentations (chair: Bosco Lliso)
Aneeque Javaid (Osnabrück University)
Social discounting: the relationship between social preferences & time preferences for group outcomes
Waldemar Marz (University of Munich)
Liberal Democracy and Climate Policy
Bosco Lliso (University of the Basque Country)
Can You Have Your Cake and Eat It Too? The Effects of an Equitable Implementation on the Success of Payments for Ecosystem Services
There is no registration fee. However, if you wish to attend please register at
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester-environmental-economics-workshop-2017-tickets-31231333760.
