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Does the Varian Mechanism Work?
-Emissions Trading as an Example

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Author NameHAMAGUCHI Yasuyo
MITANI Satoshi
SAIJO Tatsuyoshi  (Faculty Fellow)
Creation Date/
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February 2004  04-E-009
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Abstract

This paper investigates whether Varian's (1994) compensation mechanism can work in a laboratory. The results show that this mechanism does not work as in the theory. We found that the magnitude of penalties crucially affects subjects' behavior.

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