Experimental evidence on alternative environmental valuation methods

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 125-162

  Harrison, Glenn W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Experiments; Hypothetical bias; Valuation

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; EXPERIMENTS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

CONSTRUCTIVE SOLUTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUATION; HYPOTHETICAL BIAS; VALUATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

VALUATION;

EID: 33645545250     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-005-3792-9     Document Type: Article

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