Shop Until You Drop: the Unexpected Effects of Anticonsumerism and Environmentalism

Giovanni Maccarrone, Marco Marini and Ornella Tarola

No 330384, FEEM Working Papers from Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM)

Abstract: In an economy where consumers are heterogeneous in their preferences over the hedonic and environmental attributes of goods on sale, we explore the effects of anti-consumerism and environmentalism. We show that when the environmental attributes of products come at the expense of the hedonic attributes, a higher supply of anti-consumerism and environmentalism yields the expected positive effect on the environment. In contrast, when hedonic and environmental attributes are jointly met by a good, higher levels of anti-consumerism and environmentalism negatively affect the society’s environmental footprint. Moreover, the impact of anti-consumerism and environmentalism on social welfare is far from being obvious, giving rise to unexpected redistributive effects between firms and consumers.

Keywords: Environmental Economics and Policy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 43
Date: 2023-02-09
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.330384

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