Is referendum the same as dichotomous choice contingent valuation?

Land Economics

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 174-188

  Polome, Philippe ^a,b   van der Veen, Anne ^a   Geurts, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REFERENDUM; VALUATION; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 33745311638     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.82.2.174     Document Type: Article

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