What Can be Learned from Behavioural Economics for Environmental Policy?

Markus Pasche

No 2013-020, Jena Economics Research Papers from Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

Abstract: Behavioural economics attracted attention from environmental economists: it should help to understand why people do not respond to environmental policy measures, based on neoclassical assumptions, as predicted by theory. Moreover, understanding motives and driving forces behind pro-social, pro-environmental and cooperative behaviour should help to improve environmental policy design. The aim of this paper is a critical discussion of the way how this branch of research is interpreting the explanatory power and the normative (policy) implications of behavioural economics.

Keywords: Behavioural economics; environmental economics; policy design; methodology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B41 D0 D70 Q57 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-05-08
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