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Tacit coordination in contribution-based grouping with two endowment levels
Gunnthorsdottir, Anna; Vragov, Roumen; Shen, Jianfei - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306483
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Contingent valuation: A new perspective
Schläpfer, Felix - 2007
After several decades of academic research on the contingent valuation (CV) method a consistent behavioral explanation of 'hypothetical bias' is still lacking. Based on evidence from economics, economic psychology and the political sciences, I propose an explanation that is based on two simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315552
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Are blackout days free of charge? Valuation of individual preferences for improved electricity services
Jimenez M., Raul - 2017
Low-quality infrastructure services are persistent in developing countries, a situation mainly affecting the poorest households in contexts of high rates of informal access and heavily subsidized services. This paper exploits choice experiments, specifically designed for formal and informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786432
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Measuring Willingness to Pay by Means of the Trade-off between Free Available Cash and Specific-Purpose Vouchers
Lieven, Theo; Lennerts, Silke - In: BuR - Business Research 6 (2013) 2, pp. 154-171
Primarily because of the hypothetical character of interview situations, respondents are often unable to state their true willingness to pay (WTP). This inability results in the so-called hypothetical bias. To address this bias, incentive-compatible methods have been proposed, but such methods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421385
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When are preferences consistent? The effects of task familiarity and contextual cues on revealed and stated preferences
Schläpfer, Felix; Fischhoff, Baruch - 2010
Traditionally, economists make a sharp distinction between stated and revealed preferences, viewing the latter as more fully meeting the assumptions of economic analysis. Here, we consider one form of empirical evidence regarding this belief: the consistency of choices in stated and revealed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315548
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Competitive politics, simplified heuristics, and preferences for public goods
Schläpfer, Felix; Schmitt, Marcel; Roschewitz, Anna - 2007
-survey experiment to investigate how knowledge of party positions affects policy choices. We followed standard procedures in developing … an attribute-based choice experiment on alternative land-use policies in Switzerland. In contrast to the usual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315585
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Ambiquity and public good provision in large societies
Bailey, Ralph W.; Eichberger, Jürgen; Kelsey, David - 2004
In this paper we consider the effect of ambiguity on the private provision of public goods. Equilibrium is shown to exist and be unique. We examine how provision of the public good changes as the size of the population increases. We show that when there is uncertainty there may be less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422127
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Premium price for natural preservatives in wine: A discrete choice experiment
Chikumbi, Lydia; Ščasný, Milan; Muchapondwa, Edwin; … - In: Wine Economics and Policy 10 (2021) 1, pp. 101-118
The South African wine industry has recently launched the world's first 'no sulphite added' wine made from indigenous Rooibos & Honeybush toasted wood chips. This wood chip contains antioxidant properties known to protect wine from oxidation. On the other hand, SO2 as a preservative, is often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014485170
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Conditional cooperation on three continents
Kocher, Martin G.; Cherry, Todd; Kroll, Stephan; … - 2007
We show in a public goods experiment on three continents that conditional cooperation is a universal behavioral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293430
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Free Riding in the Lab and in the Field
Englmaier, Florian; Gebhardt, Georg - 2010
We run a public good experiment in the field and in the lab with (partly) the same subjects. The field experiment is a … true natural field experiment as subjects do not know that they are exposed to an experimental variation. We can show that … subjects' behavior in the classic lab public good experiment correlates with their behavior in the structurally comparable …
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