Individual preferences must be evaluated to take into account the citizens’ interests for public decisions. Usually, economists assess individual preferences through market decisions. But more often, public decisions impact goods without market prices. Without a market to refer to, evaluating...

A contingent valuation study was carried out under similar conditions on two sites simultaneously: Strasbourg (France) and Kehl (Germany) in order to test the reliability of the benefit transfer method. On average, the air quality is approximately the same in the two cities. Using a transfer of...

When individuals have limited information and are uncertain about the quality of a good, government policy, or the lack thereof, can serve as a signal to consumers about the likelihood of realizing alternatives states of nature. In this paper, we focus on a controversial beliefs about government...

This paper focuses on modelling and estimating the starting point bias in closed-ended follow-up questions, where several bids are presented successively, depending on previous answers. Although the contingent valuation literature took off in the last decade, there is only one study modelling...

We study the impact of new information about food safety on subjects' willingness-to-pay for food products, in an experimental setting. We elicit prices using either a second price auction or the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak procedure. There are three stages of bidding. In stage 1, subjects bid for...

Through the Water Framework Directive, the European Commission urges its Mem- ber states to reach a level of "good status" of water for 2015. This level can be different from the regional first-best. Neither the supra-regional regulator (European Commission) nor the regional regulator (Member...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the implication of wetland construction for the cost-effective design of a pesticide charge. A model is developed in order to show that, for a given target, the introduction of wetland construction can reduce overall abatement costs and can lower the input...

La prise en compte de l'intérêt du citoyen dans la décision publique passe par l'estimation des préférences individuelles face à différents choix collectifs. Dès lors qu'il n'existe pas de marché de référence, mesurer l'impact d'une décision publique sur le bien-être des individus...

In this paper we present the results of a study which focuses on a second generation genetically modified organism - golden rice genetically modified to contain b-carotene. We report the results of a contingent valuation survey conducted with a demographically representative sample of French...

This paper reports the results of the first injuries valuation of non fatal road accidents in France. Using the contingent valuation method, estimates of what respondents would pay to avoid one of five injury categories are obtained from the MARC survey. The survey was administred by...