Are Green Payments Good for the Environment?

Green goods: are they good or bad news for the environment? Evidence from a laboratory experiment on impure public goods

An impure public good is a commodity that combines public and private characteristics in fixed proportions. Green goods such as dolphin-friendly tuna or green electricity programs provide increasingly popular examples of impure public goods. We design an experiment to test how the presence of impure public goods affects pro-social behaviour. We set parameters, such that from a theoretical point...

Are Pharmaceutical Company Payments Incentivising Malpractice in Japanese Physicians?

are physicians good candidates for recommending diet?

background: primary prevention status and goals in 2010 are promoting healthy weight and eating habits and dietary ma­nipula­tion considered in all reports to be the cornerstone of prevention and management of chronic diseases. since in de­velop­ing countries physicians are in the front line of responding patients' questions regarding their diet, we decided to evalu­ate their necessary nutritio...

Sustainable medicine: good for the environment, good for people.

Green Building Pro-Environment Behaviors: Are Green Users Also Green Buyers?

Pro-environment behaviors play a key role in advancing the development of green buildings. This study investigated the link between two green building pro-environment behaviors that require dissimilar resources: energy savings that do not require money in order to be more environmentally friendly and willingness to pay that involves economic resources including spending money in order to be mor...