Calibrating hypothetical willingness to pay responses

Journal of Risk and Uncertainty

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 21-32

  Johannesson, Magnus ^a   Blomquist, Glenn C ^b   Blumenschein, Karen ^c   Johansson, Per olov ^a   Liljas, Bengt ^d   O'Conor, Richard M ^e  

^a STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c University of Kentucky   (United States)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e Technology Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Contingent valuation; Experiments; Hypothetical bias; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

EID: 22644450135     PISSN: 08955646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007708326467     Document Type: Article

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