The Handbook on Contingent Valuation is unique in that it focuses on contingent valuation as a method for evaluating environmental change. It examines econometric issues, conceptual underpinnings, implementation issues as well as alternatives to contingent valuation. Anna Alberini and James Kahn...

We show in a public goods experiment on three continents that conditional cooperation is a universal behavioral regularity. Yet, the number of conditional cooperators and the extent of conditional cooperation are much higher in the U.S.A. than anywhere else.

Risk and reliability dominate water supply discussions in the arid western United States. In the past, water managers built additional storage to mitigate supply risk. The optimal, least expensive storage sites have now been taken, and there are strong, environmental objections to new...

Wie viele Jugendliche können in den kommenden Jahren überhaupt noch für einen Ausbildungsplatz im dualen System gewonnen werden? Das Diskussionspapier geht dieser Frage nach und berechnet die Entwicklung des Nachfragepotenzials bis zum Jahre 2020. Unter Nachfrage wird dabei das Interesse...