Learning and fatigue effects revisited: Investigating the effects of accounting for unobservable preference and scale heterogeneity

Land Economics

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 324-351

  Czajkowski, Mikolaj ^a,b   Giergiczny, Marek ^a,b   Greene, William H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HETEROGENEITY; PARAMETERIZATION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; RESEARCH WORK;

EID: 84897010965     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/le.90.2.324     Document Type: Article

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