Shershunovich, Yauheniya: Economics of consumer and business behavior related to environment : studies in Belarus. - Bonn, 2023. - Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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@phdthesis{handle:20.500.11811/11149,
urn: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5-73102,
doi: https://doi.org/10.48565/bonndoc-164,
author = {{Yauheniya Shershunovich}},
title = {Economics of consumer and business behavior related to environment : studies in Belarus},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2023,
month = nov,

note = {Environmental problems constitute a major risk to humanity. This thesis empirically analyzes the implications of consumer and business behavior related to environment on three levels: on a micro-; on a meso-; and on a macro-level.
The first study investigates how exposure to information through different media (TV, radio, newspapers, the Internet) can influence behavior. It assumes that individuals can be simultaneously exposed to climate change messages as well as information promoting unsustainable lifestyles. Using individual-level nationally representative survey data collected in Belarus in April-May, 2022 it estimates two structural equation models. The 1st model assesses how exposure to climate change information can affect sustainable consumption behaviors, namely promotional, accommodating and pro-active behavior, and how exposure to information promoting consumerism can influence these behaviors. The 2nd model evaluates how exposure to information promoting consumerism can impact unsustainable actions. The findings reveal that exposure to climate change information has a large positive and direct effect on promotional and accommodating actions (0.239 standard deviation change) and through them an indirect positive effect on pro-active behavior (0.075 standard deviation change). This indirect effect on pro-active behavior diminishes a bit (0.074 standard deviation change) once exposure to information promoting consumerism is taken into account.
The second study explores environmental implications of trade relationships and productivity. Using the firm-level data for manufacturing companies in Belarus, it aims to answer whether exporting enterprises are more environmentally oriented and whether application of cleaner technologies increases the productivity and export intensity of an enterprise. The study estimates a system of structural equations using three-stage least squares in which exporting, adoption of environmentally friendly measures and productivity are treated as endogenous. The findings show that when a company adopts one more environmentally friendly measure, it increases its export intensity by 4.4% to 4.6%. Adoption of cleaner technologies improves labor productivity in a company – by 20.7%, but is negatively associated with its resource productivity (a 1.9% decrease), which results in the neutral effect on the total productivity. In the manufacturing sector the mean cost of labor is 3.7 times less than the mean cost of raw materials and intermediate goods used in production.
The third study analyzes the environmental impacts of the final household consumption and their social costs across the economic development spectrum. The environmental impacts are assessed in the form of CO2-, CH4- and N2O-footprints across the value chain sector-wise. The study employs an environmentally extended multiregional input-output model from the EORA26 database which uses a common 26-sector classification for all countries. The findings disclose that developing economies have lower CO2-footprints than developed economies, but higher CH4- and N2O-footprints per capita. Areas of high impact consumer behaviors include housing/building, food, and mobility, clothing and agriculture. The study also identifies those sectors where the social costs of aggregated emissions make up a substantial share of the industries’ output. Thus, it indicates the industries where more stringent environmental regulation should be in place.},

url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/11149}
}

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