How to measure scope variables when no metrics exist: Application to landscape quality measurement and hedonic price evaluation

Revue d'Economie Politique

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 827-841

  Soguel, Nils ^a   Tangerini, Alexandre ^a   Pictet, Jacques ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b Bureau d'Aide à la Décision Pictet and Bollinger   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cardinal data; Hedonic price method; Landscape quality; Landscape value; Macbeth; Scope effect; Silent negotiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 38349106437     PISSN: 03732630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3917/redp.175.0827     Document Type: Conference Paper

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