Consumers and experts: An econometric analysis of the demand for water heaters

Empirical Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 369-391

  Bartels, Robert ^a   Fiebig, Denzil G ^b   van Soest, Arthur ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^d TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Appliance choice; Mixed logit; Stated preference data

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; DEMAND ANALYSIS; ECONOMETRICS; LOGIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745752106     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-006-0052-y     Document Type: Article

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