Purpose Understanding farmers’ preferences for crop insurance attributes is crucial in designing better insurance products and guiding government policies but such research is lacking, particularly in developing countries. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose This paper aims to introduce and illustrate how discrete choice experiments (DCEs) can be used by accounting researchers and present an agenda of accounting-related research topics that might usefully benefit from the adoption of DCEs. Design/methodology/approach Each major phase...

Purpose While investment decisions may be financial decisions, there is a growing recognition that they are also often non-financially based decisions. The purpose of this study is to report findings focused on the project selection stage of capital budgeting, which has the objectives of...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate interest rate sensitivity of the US property/liability (P/L) insurers stock returns using various return generating process models incorporating different interest rate changes such as actual interest rate changes, unexpected interest rate...

The purpose of this paper is to determine the extent of environmental concern among consumers while purchasing personal care products. This paper also examines the role of consumer's willingness to pay for environmentally friendly products while making green purchase. It also tests if...

With falling prices of antiretroviral drugs in countries like India, there has been an increasing awareness that antiretroviral therapy can be made available and accessible to a large number of HIV-positive individuals. Prices, however, still remain high enough to keep ART out of reach of a...

There has been growing public opposition against genetically modified (GM) foods. Using a dichotomous choice contingent valuation methodology, we analyze the factors that affect the willingness to pay for GM-corn-fed beef by consumers in Spokane, Washington. The mean discount required to choose...

Zusammenfassung Der vorliegende Beitrag präsentiert Ergebnisse eines Forschungsprojektes des Lehrstuhls für Tourismuswirtschaft der TU Dresden zum Kirchentourismus. Im Rahmen einer empirischen Fallstudie zu zwei ausgewählten Kirchen in Sachsen sind unter Anwendung der Kontingenten...

Zusammenfassung Dieser Beitrag identifiziert Einflüsse auf die Wertschätzung von Kulturlandschaften und vergleicht dabei Touristen und Einheimische. Als Untersuchungsraum dient die Hansestadt Lübeck und ihre Umgebung. Auf Basis von Befragungen wurde mit Hilfe eines Contingent...

Zusammenfassung: Dieser Artikel untersucht auf Basis einer Befragung von mehr als 5.000 Haushaltsvorständen, wie viel sie für Versorgungssicherheit mit Strom zu zahlen bereit sind. Alternativ zur Zahlungsbereitschaft (willingness to pay, WTP) wird auch nach der Bereitschaft gefragt, gegen eine...