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Is habitual consumption harmful to the environment?

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Tetsuo Ono () (Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences, University of Tsukuba)

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This paper explores the theoretical linkage between habit and the environment through environmentally harmful consumption affected by habitual behavior. It is shown that habit formation of consumption has both negative and positive effects on environmental quality. Whether the positive effect dominates the negative one depends on the degrees of habit formation and environmental externalities.

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Volume (Year): 17 (2002)
Issue (Month): 1 ()
Pages: 1-10
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Keywords: environmental quality; habit formation; habitual consumption; overlapping generations;

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Q2 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation
D1 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior

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  1. John, A. & Pecchenino, R. & Schimmelpfennig, D. & Schreft, S., 1995. "Short-lived agents and the long-lived environment," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 58(1), pages 127-141, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Amartya Lahiri & Mikko Puhakka, 1996. "Habit Persistence in Overlapping Generations Economies Under Pure Exchange," UCLA Economics Working Papers 754, UCLA Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  1. Simone Valente, 2006. "Notes on Habit Formation and Socially Optimal Growth," Economics working paper series 06/48, CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research (CER-ETH) at ETH Zurich. [Downloadable!]
  2. Masako Ikefuji, 2008. "Habit formation in an endogenous growth model with pollution abatement activities," Journal of Economics, Springer, vol. 94(3), pages 241-259, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Vladimir Kühl Teles & Joaquim P. Andrade, 2005. "Crime And Punishment With Habit Formation," Anais do XXXIII Encontro Nacional de Economia [Proceedings of the 33th Brazilian Economics Meeting] 090, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pósgraduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics]. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Ronald Wendner, 2003. "Status, environmental externality, and optimal tax programs," Economics Bulletin, Economics Bulletin, vol. 8(5), pages 1-10. [Downloadable!]
  5. Tetsuo Ono, 2009. "The political economy of environmental and social security policies: the role of environmental lobbying," Economics of Governance, Springer, vol. 10(3), pages 261-296, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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