Unbiased value estimates for environmental goods: A cheap talk design for the contingent valuation method

American Economic Review

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 649-665

  Cummings, Ronald G ^b   Taylor, Laura O ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0000301020     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.89.3.649     Document Type: Review

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