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Egg-Timer: Transport and Environmental Policy Location: D-107 Session Chair: Moon Joon Kim, George Mason University Korea | |
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Does Atomistic Competition Eliminate Ethical Behavior? 1: Michigan State University, United States of America; 2: University of California Davis, United States of America We provide field evidence that prosocial behavior can persist even under intense competition, a possibility suggested by recent theory and experiments. California almond producers---atomized firms in a homogeneous-goods market---can mitigate pesticide externalities near schools by shifting applications to evenings or weekends at a private cost. Institutional features of this setting allow us to address important confounders (market power, reputational incentives, misreporting, and liability risk) and isolate prosocial behavior using plausibly exogenous within-firm variation in decision-level externality intensity. We find mitigation rises with externality severity despite the competitive environment, with patterns that reflect an altruistic component in firms' behavior. | |