Preference reversals in contingent and inferred valuation methods

European Review of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 379-404

  Stachtiaris, Spiros ^a   Drichoutis, Andreas C ^b   Klonaris, Stathis ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Contingent valuation; Inferred valuation; preference reversals; willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874779518     PISSN: 01651587     EISSN: 14643618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/erae/jbs030     Document Type: Article

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