Willingness-to-pay estimation with mixed logit models: Some new evidence

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 525-550

  Sillano, Mauricio ^a   de Dios Ortúzar, Juan ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 15944428997     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a36137     Document Type: Article

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