Willingness-to-pay for greenhouse gas reductions: A Bayesian investigation of distributional patterns

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 19-20, Issue , 2012, Pages 147-157

  Chalak, Ali ^a   Hecht, Jonathan ^b   Reid, Scott ^c   Abiad, Mohamad G ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b ICF INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c ICS Consulting Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bounded distributions; Choice experiment; Greenhouse gas emissions; Mixed logit; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COST; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; GREENHOUSE GAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

EID: 84859497240     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2012.02.003     Document Type: Article

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