Can willingness-to-pay values be manipulated? Evidence from an organic food experiment in China

Agricultural Economics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 45, Issue S1, 2014, Pages 119-127

  Yu, Xiaohua ^a,b   Yan, Binjian ^a   Gao, Zhifeng ^c  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive load; Experiments; Motives; Organic food; Time pressure; WTP

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908261500     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/agec.12134     Document Type: Article

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