Strategic overbidding in contingent valuation: Stated economic value of public goods varies according to consumers expectations of funding source

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 205-214

  Posavac, Steven S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer behavior; Costs and cost analysis; H41; Motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000148455     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4870(98)00004-X     Document Type: Article

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