Erik Ansink's research while affiliated with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and other places

... Main challenges reside both in the improvement of technological innovations and their organizational adaptation in the current socio technological system. This novelty is also perceived as a disturbing element for recyclers and as a new deal for consumers who do not know in which type of bin to put these "items" (Ansink et al., 2022). ...

... A study based in Germany by Klein et al. in 2019 revealed that consumers would select bioplastics based on previous product experience, their values, and their existing attitudes towards bioplastics when selecting bio-based material, in this study's case, apparel (Klein et al. 2019). Consumers are interested in employing bioplastics (Klein et al. 2019); however, studies that look into the effective sorting of bioplastics show that the consumers are mostly ineffective sorters (Ansink et al. 2019). A survey in Australia published in 2019 found that the public's knowledge of bioplastics was relatively low. ...

... As an important means to make external and public goods become internal and private, clarification of property rights is of positive significance to promote peasant households' management and conservation of natural resources [27]. Influenced by the endowment effect, peasant households having a better perception of property rights tend to offer higher tender prices [28]. As a sort of group characteristic, behavior, or outcome, social capital affects individual behavior or outcome [29]. ...

... Indeed, the findings of Iftekhar and Tisdell (2016) suggested that although endogenous Agglomeration Bonus schemes can help achieve corridor outcomes, the schemes perform poorly in terms of cost-effectiveness due to the high rents sought by landholders. In the same vein, Dijk et al. (2017) highlighted the trade-off between environmental effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Agglomeration Bonus schemes. Their theoretical model suggests that the cost-effectiveness of Agglomeration Bonus is lower compared to that of Threshold Payment and spatially homogenous (i.e. ...

... However, such a (heroic) assumption has been criticized, see, for example, Diamantoudi and Sartzetakis (2006), Pintassilgo et al. (2010) and Pintassilgo et al. (2015). On the contrary, other scholars argue that IEAs can be stable and the conditions under which such a claim is valid are further examined, see Kaitala and Lindroos (2004), Ansink et al. (2019) and Finus and McGinty (2019). We do not enter this debate, but we assume that IEAs can be self-enforcing cooperative arrangements. ...

... Zubrickas (2017, 2020) and Cason, Tabarrok, and Zubrickas (2020) conducted laboratory experiments in which they explored different incentive schemes such as bonuses for early contributions. Similarly, in a web-based experiment, Ansink et al. (2017) tested the effects of seed money and the impact of the attraction effect. In a field experiment, Burtch et al. (2015) studied the effects of privacy. ...

... Within this set up, CCV showed that increasing the number of public goods resulted in miscoordination among donors, lower contributions and a lower probability that any public good reached its contribution threshold. Several papers since have looked at extensions of CCV (Ansink, Koetse, Bouma, Hauck, & van Soest, 2017;Bouma, Nguyen, Van Der Heijden, & Dijk, 2020;Cason & Zubrickas, 2019). CCR extended CCV by introducing the possibility of coordinating contributions via an intermediary, varying whether the intermediary was obliged to send all transfers received from donors to the public goods as opposed to being allowed to expropriate any amount of these transfers for herself, and finding only that the former had a positive effect on public good success. ...

... First, we enrich the intrahousehold experimental research by exploring more intangible aspects of household behaviour, as opposed to the usual efficiency analyses of economic field studies (Barr et al., 2019;Hidrobo et al., 2020;Kebede et al., 2014). Secondly, we extend the literature on social capital by examining trust and cooperation within the household setting, adding to the numerous studies on social capital already conducted at the community level (Ansink et al., 2017;Bouma et al., 2008;Irwin et al., 2015;Msaddak et al., 2021). ...

... Instead, the relationships concern the very issue of energy and energy demand or the origin of energy. Secondly, several leading areas of research can be distinguished, among which one can notice the threads-particularly sustainability, stakeholders, and energy policy-as an area of shaping institutional solutions [39][40][41]. Such policies bring with them systemic and market solutions, such as capacity market, energy market regulations, certificates of origin, etc., and that causes increased communication traffic in social media [12,42,43]. ...

... These agreements stabilize the relations of the states concerning their shared freshwater systems (McCaffrey, 2003); they clarify property rights over water and prevent states from moving towards coercion and grabbing resources from others (Ansink et al., 2015); they pave the way for information exchange; and, they create the potential for the establishment of joint management mechanisms. Moreover, basins with institutional mechanisms, like treaties, are less prone to conflicts (Yoffe et al., 2003). ...