Testing the fundamental assumption of choice experiments: Are values absolute or relative?

Land Economics

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 284-296

  Luisetti, Tiziana ^a   Bateman, Ian J ^b   Kerry Turner, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; WETLAND;

EID: 79951884397     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.87.2.284     Document Type: Article

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