Lecture
PEPP talk: Framing attitudes for supply chain legislation
- Date
- Thursday 20 February 2025
- Time
- Location
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Wijnhaven
Turfmarkt 99
2511 DP The Hague - Room
- 3.54
Global production practices have spurred economic growth, yet they have also imposed significant social costs. While the benefits are often concentrated in high-income countries, the majority of these costs are shifted to non-OECD lower- and middle-income nations. Recently, addressing these costs has become a prominent focus of political agendas in OECD countries. Several national governments (e.g. German or French) and the European Union have moved to regulate business behavior through supply chain sustainability legislation. The stringency of policy design can vary, among others, in terms of which companies are responsible, what they are responsible for, and what happens when the penalty is when companies are non-compliant. Stringently designed legislation might have a stronger positive impact abroad, but it could raise domestic costs for business and, in turn, for consumers. In this talk, Max Joosten will present the first findings of a survey experiment in the Netherlands and Germany, aimed to better understand what attitudes citizens hold towards regulating international business conduct, and what arguments they consider in developing their preferences.