Bounding WTP distributions to reflect the 'actual' consideration set

Journal of Choice Modelling

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 4-15

  Campbell, Danny ^a   Hensher, David A ^b   Scarpa, Riccardo ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Combined latent class mixed logit model; Consideration set; Cost threshold; Elimination by aspects; Independent availability logit model; Willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905174651     PISSN: 17555345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocm.2014.02.004     Document Type: Article

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