Information Avoidance, Selective Exposure, and Fake(?) News-A Green Market Experiment
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Keywords
Information avoidance; experiment; carbon o?sets; moral wiggle room; green consumption; fake news;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
- G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions
- G41 - Financial Economics - - Behavioral Finance - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making in Financial Markets
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2019-09-16 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-ENV-2019-09-16 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2019-09-16 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-ORE-2019-09-16 (Operations Research)
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