To pay or not to pay: Competing theories to explain individuals' willingness to pay for public environmental goods

Environment and Behavior

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 106-130

  Liebe, Ulf ^a   Preisendörfer, Peter ^b   Meyerhoff, Jürgen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

contingent valuation; norm activation model; theory of planned behavior; theory of public goods; willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

CONTINGENT VALUATION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; PLANNING HISTORY; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC GOODS; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 78649940554     PISSN: 00139165     EISSN: 1552390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013916509346229     Document Type: Article

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