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Can verifiable information cut through the noise about climate protection? An experimental auction test

Onur Sapci, Aaron Wood (), Jason Shogren and Jolene Green

Climatic Change, 2016, vol. 134, issue 1, 87-99

Abstract: Using an experimental auction, we explore how verifiable information affects the willingness to pay (WTP) for two climate friendly goods given the politicized climate change debate. We test whether the dissemination of (scientific) verifiable information lets subjects cut through the media noise. We define our baseline by first examining how noisy information (pro and con) about climate change affects WTP. We then consider how third party verifiable information within this noisy information affects WTP. Our results suggest subjects could cut through noisy information to process verifiable information. We find a significant WTP premium for climate protection. The verifiable information treatment increases the premium for both shade-grown coffee (by 51 %) and recycled paper (by 48 %). This suggests the WTP premium for climate change depends on the available information flow and the characteristics of the climate friendly good. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016

Date: 2016
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