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Peter Martinsson

Peter Martinsson

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
43
Citations
8560
World Ranking
1961
National Ranking
19

Overview

Peter Martinsson is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and specializes in social sciences, with a particular focus on experimental behavioral economics studies, energy and environment impacts, and culture, economy, and development studies. Their research also covers evolutionary game theory and cooperation as well as hybrid renewable energy systems and electric vehicles and infrastructure.

Their notable recent papers include: "Cost of power outages for manufacturing firms in Ethiopia: A stated preference study" (2020, Energy Economics); "Past and present outage costs - A follow-up study of households' willingness to pay to avoid power outages" (2021, Resource and Energy Economics); "We, the rich: Inequality, identity and cooperation" (2020, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization); "Create a culture of experiments in environmental programs" (2023, Science); and "The origins of cultural divergence: evidence from Vietnam" (2021, Journal of Economic Growth).

Martinsson's frequent co-authors include Abebe D. Beyene, Zenebe Gebreegziabher, Alemu Mekonnen, Fredrik Carlsson, and Michael Toman. Collaboration with these colleagues appears across multiple projects and publications.

Their publication record shows contributions to several academic venues, notably:

  • Land Economics
  • Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
  • Energy Economics
  • Resource and Energy Economics
  • Science

Martinsson has also contributed to book publications, including a work published by World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks, titled "Improved Biomass Cookstove use in the Longer Run: Results from a Field Experiment in Rural Ethiopia" (2020).

The scientist's research spans several subfields of social sciences, particularly safety research, pollution, sociology and political science, demography, and economics and econometrics. This interdisciplinary approach is reflected in the diverse topics covered by their work.

Best Publications

  • Do Hypothetical and Actual Marginal Willingness to Pay Differ in Choice Experiments?: Application to the Valuation of the Environment

    Fredrik Carlsson;Peter Martinsson

  • Using choice experiments for non-market valuation

    Peter Martinsson;Fredrik Carlsson;Francisco Alpizar

  • Design techniques for stated preference methods in health economics.

    Fredrik Carlsson;Peter Martinsson

  • Do You Enjoy Having More than Others? Survey Evidence of Positional Goods

    Fredrik Carlsson;Olof Johansson-Stenman;Peter Martinsson

  • Common components of risk and uncertainty attitudes across contexts and domains: evidence from 30 countries

    Ferdinand M. Vieider;Mathieu Lefebvre;Ranoua Bouchouicha;Thorsten Chmura

  • Life satisfaction and air quality in Europe

    Susana Ferreira;Alpaslan Akay;Finbarr Brereton;Juncal Cunado

  • Honestly, why are you driving a BMW?

    Olof Johansson-Stenman;Peter Martinsson

  • How Much is Too Much? An Investigation of the Effect of the Number of Choice Sets, Context Dependence and the Choice of Bid Vectors in Choice Experiments

    Fredrik Carlsson;Peter Martinsson

  • Does it matter when a power outage occurs? — A choice experiment study on the willingness to pay to avoid power outages

    Fredrik Carlsson;Peter Martinsson

  • Trust and Religion: Experimental Evidence from Rural Bangladesh

    Olof Johansson-Stenman;Minhaj Mahmud;Peter Martinsson

  • Health insurance and treatment seeking behaviour: evidence from a low-income country.

    Matthew Jowett;Anil Deolalikar;Anil Deolalikar;Peter Martinsson

  • Willingness to Pay among Swedish Households to Avoid Power Outages: A Random Parameter Tobit Model Approach

    Fredrik Carlsson;Peter Martinsson

  • Ostracism and the provision of a public good: experimental evidence

    Frank P. Maier-Rigaud;Peter Martinsson;Gianandrea Staffiero

  • Does stake size matter in trust games

    Olof Johansson-Stenman;Minhaj Mahmud;Peter Martinsson

  • Household Decision Making in Rural China: Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses

    Fredrik Carlsson;Haoran He;Haoran He;Peter Martinsson;Ping Qin;Ping Qin

  • Easy come, easy go

    Fredrik Carlsson;Haoran He;Peter Martinsson

  • Does Stake Size matter for Cooperation and Punishment

    Martin G. Kocher;Martin G. Kocher;Peter Martinsson;Martine Visser;Martine Visser

  • Are experienced people affected by a pre-set default option—Results from a field experiment

    Åsa Löfgren;Peter Martinsson;Magnus Hennlock;Magnus Hennlock;Thomas Sterner

  • Are Commercial Fishers Risk Lovers

    Hakan Eggert;Peter Martinsson

  • The effect of power outages and cheap talk on willingness to pay to reduce outages

    Fredrik Carlsson;Peter Martinsson;Alpaslan Akay

  • Life Satisfaction and Air Quality in Europe

    Susana Ferreira;Alpaslan Akay;Finbarr Brereton;Juncal Cuñado

Frequent Co-Authors

Fredrik Carlsson
Fredrik Carlsson University of Gothenburg
Martin G. Kocher
Martin G. Kocher University of Vienna
Olof Johansson-Stenman
Olof Johansson-Stenman University of Gothenburg
Matthias Sutter
Matthias Sutter Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Ping Qin
Ping Qin University of Oslo
Martin Dufwenberg
Martin Dufwenberg University of Arizona
Thomas Sterner
Thomas Sterner University of Gothenburg
Villy Sundström
Villy Sundström Lund University
Gunnar Köhlin
Gunnar Köhlin University of Gothenburg

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