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Alistair Munro

@alistair-munro.bsky.social

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Professor. Co-Chief-Editor Environmental & Resource Economics. Behavioural, Environmental, Experimental, Development. Mostly Ibaraki. バーコードなし. Sky Blue.

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NEP-DCM: Discrete Choice Models @repec-nep-dcm.bsky.social · 46m

The Bayesian Origin of the Probability Weighting Function in Human Representation of Probabilities: Xin Tong; Thi Thu Uyen Hoang; Xue-Xin Wei; Michael Hahn

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 1h

And of course, take away the license fees and you’re gifting profits to multinationals

Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 1h

Not sure if #Greenpeace is being deliberately obtuse here about where the money goes. Politically it would be better off pointing out that those fees paid for 1/2 cost of the #NHS in #Lincolnshire last year. How would Reform cover the gap if it abandoned offshore wind?

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NEP-DCM: Discrete Choice Models @repec-nep-dcm.bsky.social · 3h

Inducing State Anxiety in LLM Agents Reproduces Human-Like Biases in Consumer Decision-Making: Ziv Ben-Zion; Zohar Elyoseph; Tobias Spiller; Teddy Lazebnik

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 8h

In October's Environmental and Resource Economics we honour Daniel Kahneman's legacy: Gilles Grolleau, Luc Meunier & Naoufel Mzoughi analyze how framinng impacts food waste management behaviour. #Econsky #EAERE

Targeting the Sin or the Sinner? Applying Kahneman’s Insights to Frame Environmental Messages for Better Waste Management - Environmental and Resource Economics

Inspired from Kahneman’s seminal contributions to the theory of framing, we test the impact of noun- versus verb-based framings (e.g., do not be a polluter versus do not pollute) on individuals’…

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 14h

@justinmmccurry.bsky.social is it correct that these stats won’t pick up the kids of married couples where only one parent is foreign ? That’s a significant demographic.

Record number of babies born to foreign parents in Japan amid political row over migration www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Record number of babies born to foreign parents in Japan amid political row over migration

More than 20,000 children were born to non-Japanese couples, accounting for more than 3% of all newborns

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 14h

In October's Environmental and Resource Economics we honour Daniel Kahneman's legacy: Wouter Botzen, Louison Thepaut & Sanchayan Banerjee review how Kahneman's ideas modify the evaluation of the economic and psychological impact of climate change. #EAERE #Econsky

Kahneman’s Insights for Climate Risks: Lessons from Bounded Rationality, Heuristics and Biases - Environmental and Resource Economics

Daniel Kahneman’s pioneering research in behavioral economics has profoundly influenced the field of environmental economics, shaping what is now known as behavioral-environmental economics. This…

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 23h

Mmmm lamb and it's a lovely idea, but has someone run the numbers. Baa baa green sheep, have you any pull? @hannahritchie.bsky.social

Chart from Our World in Data at https://ourworldindata.org/carbon-footprint-food-methane summarizing the relative carbon footprint of common foodstuffs and suggesting that grazing sheep around solar panels is perhaps not that green.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 1d

In October's Environmental and Resource Economics we honour Daniel Kahneman's legacy: Paul M. Lohmann, Elisabeth Gsottbauer, Christina Gravert & Lucia A. Reisch investigate how nudges interact with time pressure. #EAERE #Econsky

Nudging, Fast and Slow: Experimental Evidence from Food Choices under Time Pressure - Environmental and Resource Economics

Understanding when and why nudges work is crucial for designing interventions that consistently and reliably change behaviour. This paper explores the relationship between decision-making speed and…

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 1d

In October's Environmental and Resource Economics we honour Daniel Kahneman's legacy: Noel Zigrand Hoven & Karine Nyborg document how being observed increases pro-social behaviour but can also create substitution away from non-observable contributions. #EconSky

The Mixed Effects of Making Contribution Behaviors Observable - Environmental and Resource Economics

Environmental and Resource Economics - Voluntary contributions to public goods have been shown to increase when contribution behaviors become observable by peers. We examine the effect of social...

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Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“a supply chain attack”

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 3d

Hopefully not available in the UK

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How London became the phone-snatching capital of Europe

New analysis shows there were 50,000 thefts in the city last year — with criminals zooming away on e-bikes and shipping phones overseas to beat safety mechanisms

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 3d

In October's Environmental and Resource Economics we honour Daniel Kahneman's legacy: Graham Loomes reviews how contingent valuation and applied welfare economics is shaped by his work. #Econsky #EAERE

Daniel Kahneman and Contingent Valuation - Environmental and Resource Economics

Environmental and Resource Economics - In its early days, contingent valuation (CV) seemed to offer a powerful and flexible method for generating monetary values for benefits and harms that were...

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 3d

In October's Environmental and Resource Economics we honour Daniel Kahneman's legacy: Noel Zigrand Hoven & Karine Nyborg examine how behaviour around public goods is influenced by observability. #Econsky #EAERE

The Mixed Effects of Making Contribution Behaviors Observable - Environmental and Resource Economics

Environmental and Resource Economics - Voluntary contributions to public goods have been shown to increase when contribution behaviors become observable by peers. We examine the effect of social...

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 3d

In October's Environmental and Resource Economics we honour Daniel Kahneman's legacy: Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden examine his complicated relationship with economic theory and practice. #EconSky #Kahneman

What Daniel Kahneman Thought about Economics: A Reconstruction and Critique - Environmental and Resource Economics

Environmental and Resource Economics - Drawing on Kahneman’s writings, his responses in interviews and our personal recollections, we reconstruct and critically assess his view of his...

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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 3d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 3d

So not the opening lines of Vampires of Ontario?

Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 4d

Checks out

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 4d

My paper "Tax benefits for users of company cars: How do they affect the cost of ownership for the employer?" has been published on-line in European Transport Studies. It is available in free access. Work performed at the Federal Planning Bureau.

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Tax benefits for users of company cars: How do they affect the cost of ownership for the employer?

I present a cost of ownership (from the perspective of the employer) analysis of leased company cars sold in Belgium in 2023, both before and after ta…

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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 5d

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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The Productivity Institute @productivity.bsky.social · 5d

📊 New report by @joshmartinecon.bsky.social and Cliodhna Taylor for The Productivity Institute and @escoeorg.bsky.social tracks UK labour productivity across 184 industries from 2009–2023, more than double the granularity available from official datasets.
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Labour productivity estimates for detailed industries in the UK, 2009 to 2023 - The Productivity Institute

Research constructing labour productivity estimates for 184 industries spanning the entire UK economy – more than double the granularity available from official datasets.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 5d

The best part is that, once a term, the apparatus magically reassembled itself for Pirates

Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 5d

Rumour has it that Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness, was based on his experience of the Japanese lettuce, notorious for wilting the moment the barcode is read, so I’d say Takaichi san will easily survive the Truss challenge.

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Land Economics @land-econ.bsky.social · 6d

Land Economics continues to celebrate 100 years in publication! To read an open access bibliometric review of the journal (doi.org/10.3368/le.102.1.271914) and other free preprint articles like it, visit: le.uwpress.org/content/early/recent.

Abstract: Spanning 1925–2024, we map Land Economics (LE) using Web of Science and Scopus with VOSviewer, bibliometrix, and SciVal. Analyses of documents, authors, and themes show LE as a central node linking environmental, agricultural, and urban economics. Seminal strands—property rights, contingent valuation, discrete choice, and hedonic pricing—anchor long-run influence. Keyword co-occurrence and thematic mapping confirm persistent emphases on valuation models, impact assessment, and policy applications, alongside emerging work on ecosystem services, climate change, and the water–energy nexus. Trend-topic and SciVal clusters reveal growing attention to disaster management, green innovation, and behavioral economics with uneven recent citation performance across topics and time.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 6d

No. They are monetizing (Monet izing?) hypothetical well-being gains.

Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 6d

There is no such thing as society, but there is such a thing as future society.

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 6d

Thatcher sounding like Zack Polanski here

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Clara Murray @claradoodle.bsky.social · 6d

Fiscal costs: -€72mn (after accounting for increased tax revenues & lower social benefits payouts)

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Clara Murray @claradoodle.bsky.social · 6d

Actually... from my reading of the artists' basic income report, the government did not earn money back from the scheme (although its costs were offset 37%)

Most gains were societal and came from putting the artists' improvements in wellbeing in € terms

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 6d

Thatcher sounding like Zack Polanski here

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