As economists took up the task of measuring the "demand" for environmental services not traded in markets, some chose to substituted survey-based methods known as contingent valuation (CV). Doing so, they could not help but find themselves in the uncomfortable position of self-evidently...

In der Ökonomie ist die Kenntnis des monetarisierten Werts von öffentlichen Gütern wie Sicherheit oder sauberer Luft wichtig, um eine Datenbasis für politische Entscheidungen zu haben. Diese Arbeit entwickelt ein ökonometrisches Modell um aus Umfragedaten diese Zahlungsbereitschaft...

Discounting future costs and benefits is a crucial yet contentious practice in the appraisal of long-term public projects with environmental consequences. The standard approach typically neglects that ecosystem services are not easily substitutable with manufactured goods and often exhibit...