The benefit-transfer challenges

Annual Review of Resource Economics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 161-182

  Boyle, Kevin J ^a   Kuminoff, Nicolai V ^b   Parmeter, Christopher F ^c   Pope, Jaren C ^d  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonmarket valuation; Policy evaluation; Validity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952583420     PISSN: 19411340     EISSN: 19411359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.resource.012809.103933     Document Type: Article

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