How can behavioral economics inform nonmarket valuation? An example from the preference reversal literature

Land Economics

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 365-381

  Alevy, Jonathan E ^a   List, John A ^b   Adamowicz, Wiktor L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA ANCHORAGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PSYCHOLOGY; RESOURCE ECONOMY; THEORETICAL STUDY; VALUATION;

EID: 80052016744     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.87.3.365     Document Type: Article

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