Disentangling the Pure Time Effect From Site and Preference Heterogeneity Effects in Benefit Transfer: An Empirical Investigation of Transferability

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 583-611

  Fetene, Gebeyehu M ^b   Olsen, Søren B ^a   Bonnichsen, Ole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Benefit transfer; Open ended contingent valuation; Temporal reliability; Transfer error; Transferability

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS;

BENEFIT TRANSFER; CONTINGENT VALUATIONS; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; PREFERENCE HETEROGENEITY; TEMPORAL DIMENSIONS; TEMPORAL RELIABILITY; TRANSFERABILITY; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84920258512     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: 15731502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-013-9751-y     Document Type: Article

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