Inducing incentives to understate and to overstate willingness to pay within the open-ended and the dichotomous-choice elicitation formats: An experimental study

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 88-102

  Lunander, Anders ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 0031824421     PISSN: 00950696     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jeem.1997.1016     Document Type: Article

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