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Airline choice, switching costs and frequent flyer programs
(2004)
Switching costs are costs that customers face when switching from one firm to another. In markets such
as the airline market where repeated purchases are common, switching costs may be substantial. In this
paper we ...
Using Cheap-Talk as a Test of Validity in Choice Experiments
(2004)
In two experiments on the choice of consumer goods, the estimated marginal willingness to pay for food are found to be lower in the survey version with cheap talk. Our test can be seen as a test of hypothetical bias. This ...
Preferences With and Without Prices - does the price attribute affect behavior in stated preference surveys?
(2004)
The experimental as well as the nonmarket valuation literature include several examples of how an introduced price can affect behavior in otherwise not expected ways. It has become standard to include a price vector as an ...
Measuring marginal values of noise disturbance from air traffic: Does the time of the day matter?
(2004)
This paper analyzes the marginal willingness to pay for changes in noise levels related to changes in the volume of flight movements at a city airport in Stockholm, Sweden, by using a choice experiment. When estimating ...
Contingent valuation of community plantations in Ethiopia: a look into value elicitation formats and intra-household preference variations
(2004)
This paper is an application of the contingent valuation method on community plantations in the highlands of Ethiopia. A discrete-continuous elicitation format was applied. It was found that there is a problem in applying ...
Evaluating the welfare effects of improved water quality using the choice experiment method
(2004)
This paper analyzes the welfare effects of improved health status through increased
water quality using a choice experiment. The survey was administered to a random
sample of households in metropolitan Cairo, Egypt. We ...
Consumer willingness to pay for farm animal welfare - transportation of farm animals to slaughter versus the use of mobile abattoirs
(2004)
This study employed a choice experiment (CE) to ascertain consumer preferences and willingness to pay (WTP) for non-market food product quality attributes. Data were obtained from a large mail survey and estimated with a ...
Consumer benefits of labels and bans on genetically modified food - An empirical analysis using Choice Experiments
(2004)
Applying an experiment on the choice of consumer goods, we show that Swedish consumers do not
regard genetically modified (GM) food as being equivalent to conventional food. A central argument by proponents of GM is that ...