Spatial preference heterogeneity: A choice experiment

Land Economics

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 552-568

  Brouwer, Roy ^a   Martin Ortega, Julia ^b   Berbel, Julio ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HETEROGENEITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIVER BASIN; WATER QUALITY; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 77954621252     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.86.3.552     Document Type: Article

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