Markets, morality, and the environment
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Environmental governance scholarship typically considers how to use financial and legal incentives to encourage firms to internalize externalities. This dissertation examines how moral identity concerns and social influence—the desire to look and feel like a moral actor, and the social context in which an act occurs—can also shape regulation and firm behavior. Chapter 1 employs eight sets of studies to empirically evaluate patterns of moral judgment and so contribute to a deeper understanding of moral identity concerns. Applying those patterns of moral judgment to policy, Chapter 2 tests tradeoffs in proposals to alter corporate director fiduciary duties and thus encourage greater corporate social responsibility. I combine an analysis of legal doctrine and theory on motivational crowding to inform three preregistered experiments with over 900 participants. I find that mandating consideration of society—as compared to merely allowing such consideration—can backfire by reducing the reputational rewards for prosocial action. Chapter 3 explores behavioral distinctions between economically equivalent market-based price- and quantity-regulatory regimes (e.g., pollution tax and cap-and-trade programs). Using a preregistered experiment with over 500 participants, the chapter finds that negotiators reach more environmentally protective tax than cap-and-trade policy deals. This dissertation contributes to a better understanding of the social and moral influences that shape regulation and firm behavior.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Kim, Hajin |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Miller, Dale T |
| Degree supervisor | Thompson, Barton H, Jr |
| Thesis advisor | Miller, Dale T |
| Thesis advisor | Thompson, Barton H, Jr |
| Thesis advisor | Lambin, Eric F |
| Thesis advisor | MacCoun, Robert J |
| Degree committee member | Lambin, Eric F |
| Degree committee member | MacCoun, Robert J |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Hajin Kim. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2020 by Hajin Kim
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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