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What is a key challenge in greenhouse gas negotiations?
What is a key challenge in greenhouse gas negotiations?
- The high cost of implementing climate change prevention measures
- Countries' unwillingness to adopt renewable energy sources
- The lack of scientific consensus on climate change
- Differing perceptions of fairness among countries (correct)
Why are countries more sensitive to potential economic losses from reducing emissions than to potential gains from preventing climate change?
Why are countries more sensitive to potential economic losses from reducing emissions than to potential gains from preventing climate change?
- Due to loss aversion (correct)
- Because they are more focused on short-term gains
- As a result of self-serving beliefs about fairness
- Because they are unaware of the consequences of climate change
What is the primary goal of default options in green energy programs?
What is the primary goal of default options in green energy programs?
- To provide financial incentives for adopting green energy
- To increase the adoption of renewable energy sources without drastic changes in behavior (correct)
- To educate people about the benefits of climate change prevention
- To require people to adopt renewable energy sources
What is a key advantage of default options in green energy programs?
What is a key advantage of default options in green energy programs?
Why do countries perceive fairness differently in the context of greenhouse gas negotiations?
Why do countries perceive fairness differently in the context of greenhouse gas negotiations?
What is the purpose of behavioral interventions in the context of climate change prevention?
What is the purpose of behavioral interventions in the context of climate change prevention?
What is the primary reason why people use available information to help make a decision?
What is the primary reason why people use available information to help make a decision?
What is the consequence of using available information to make a decision?
What is the consequence of using available information to make a decision?
What is the concept that describes how adding an alternative can influence preference for other alternatives?
What is the concept that describes how adding an alternative can influence preference for other alternatives?
What is an example of asymmetric dominance?
What is an example of asymmetric dominance?
What is the goal of exploiting context dependence in marketing?
What is the goal of exploiting context dependence in marketing?
What is the decoy effect?
What is the decoy effect?
What is the consequence of adding an option that is inferior to the target product and asymmetrically dominated by a competitor?
What is the consequence of adding an option that is inferior to the target product and asymmetrically dominated by a competitor?
According to Slovic (1995), what do people do when they are uncertain about their own preferences and need to make a decision?
According to Slovic (1995), what do people do when they are uncertain about their own preferences and need to make a decision?
What is the primary purpose of 'choice architecture' in the context of behavioral economics?
What is the primary purpose of 'choice architecture' in the context of behavioral economics?
What is the main difference between the traditional approach and behavioral economics in predicting how defaults influence choice?
What is the main difference between the traditional approach and behavioral economics in predicting how defaults influence choice?
What is the primary reason why people in the US are less likely to grant access to their organs for donation compared to people in Sweden?
What is the primary reason why people in the US are less likely to grant access to their organs for donation compared to people in Sweden?
What is the main characteristic of a 'nudge' in the context of behavioral economics?
What is the main characteristic of a 'nudge' in the context of behavioral economics?
What is the concept that describes how people overestimate how much their future taste will resemble their current taste?
What is the concept that describes how people overestimate how much their future taste will resemble their current taste?
What is the primary goal of using behavioral insights in public policy?
What is the primary goal of using behavioral insights in public policy?
Why do people often mispredict their future taste?
Why do people often mispredict their future taste?
What is the main difference between the US and Sweden in terms of organ donation rates?
What is the main difference between the US and Sweden in terms of organ donation rates?
What is a key characteristic of the SE mode in the evaluability hypothesis?
What is a key characteristic of the SE mode in the evaluability hypothesis?
What is the main implication of the JE/SE research on economic theory?
What is the main implication of the JE/SE research on economic theory?
What is the term used to describe the phenomenon where absolute valuations are arbitrary and sensitive to influences?
What is the term used to describe the phenomenon where absolute valuations are arbitrary and sensitive to influences?
What happens to the initial arbitrary valuation in the coherent arbitrariness phenomenon?
What happens to the initial arbitrary valuation in the coherent arbitrariness phenomenon?
What is true about attributes in the JE mode?
What is true about attributes in the JE mode?
What is the main difference between JE and SE modes?
What is the main difference between JE and SE modes?
What is the result of normatively irrelevant factors influencing valuation?
What is the result of normatively irrelevant factors influencing valuation?
What is the implication of coherent arbitrariness on economic theory?
What is the implication of coherent arbitrariness on economic theory?
What is the key difference between risk and uncertainty?
What is the key difference between risk and uncertainty?
In the context of decision-making, what is the primary characteristic of ambiguity aversion?
In the context of decision-making, what is the primary characteristic of ambiguity aversion?
What is the main consequence of ambiguity on probability judgments?
What is the main consequence of ambiguity on probability judgments?
What is the primary difference between Urn1 and Urn2 in the two urn problem?
What is the primary difference between Urn1 and Urn2 in the two urn problem?
What is the expected value of a bet on rolling 2 on a dice, if you stand to win 1000 Euros?
What is the expected value of a bet on rolling 2 on a dice, if you stand to win 1000 Euros?
What is a common consequence of ambiguity aversion in decision-making?
What is a common consequence of ambiguity aversion in decision-making?
What is the primary characteristic of uncertain events?
What is the primary characteristic of uncertain events?
What is the main implication of ambiguity aversion on decision-making?
What is the main implication of ambiguity aversion on decision-making?
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Study Notes
Greenhouse Gas Negotiations
- Self-serving beliefs about fairness can hinder negotiations as countries perceive fairness differently
- Loss aversion: countries are more sensitive to potential economic losses than to potential gains from preventing climate change, making them reluctant to commit to significant emissions cuts
Remedies through Behavioral Interventions (Nudge)
- Behavioral interventions can be used to increase adoption of renewable energy sources without requiring drastic changes in behavior or significant financial incentives
- Default options: automatically enrolling people in green energy programs while allowing them to opt-out can significantly increase adoption
- Constructed Preferences: people are uncertain about their own preferences and use available information to help resolve uncertainty, leading to deviations from standard predictions about choices and the influence of context in which options are presented
Behavioral Economics Concepts
- Asymmetric dominance: when one option is better than another on one attribute but worse on another attribute, making it a tough choice
- Context dependence: expanding the set of options can lead to preference shifts toward original set members
- Decoy effect: adding an inferior option can lead to preference shifts toward the target option
- Evaluability hypothesis: attributes that are difficult to judge can be influenced by other attributes that are meaningful
- Preferences are reversed between joint evaluation (JE) and separate evaluation (SE) modes
- Coherent arbitrariness: absolute valuations are arbitrary and sensitive to normative and non-normative influences, but relative valuations are coherent to the initial arbitrary valuation
Risk and Uncertainty
- Risk: known probability distribution of an outcome (e.g., lottery numbers, roulette wheels)
- Uncertainty: unknown probability distribution of an outcome (e.g., horse races, most things in life)
- Ambiguity Aversion (AA): tendency to prefer risky over uncertain events
- Ellsberg paradox: two urn problem where people prefer betting on events with known probability distributions over unknown probability distributions
Nudge
- Any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people's behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives
- Easy to implement, cheap to implement, overt and not covert, no restriction on choice, and no forcing into any options
- Examples of nudges include default options for organ donation and green energy programs
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