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Assessing management options for weed control with demanders and non-demanders in a choice experiment
(2006)
The yellow floating heart is a water weed causing nuisance problems in Swedish watercourses. An economic analysis of this is required where various management options are considered. The benefits of a management program ...
Forestland Reform in China: What do the Farmers Want? A Choice Experiment on Farmers’ Property Rights Preferences
(2009-06-30)
Various decentralization experiments are currently underway in the Chinese forestry sector.
However, a key question often ignored by researchers and policy makers is what farmers
really want from reform. This paper ...
Costs and Benefits of Electric Vehicles - A 2010 Perspective
(2002)
This paper undertakes a social cost-benefit analysis regarding an increase in the number
of electric vehicles in the Swedish transport sector by year 2010. Battery cars are
generally found to be socially unprofitable, even ...
How much is too much? - An investigation of the effect of the number of choice sets, starting point and the choice of bid vectors in choice experiments
(2006)
In a split sample design, we examine how the number of choice sets, design of the first
choice set (starting point), and the choice of attribute levels in the cost attribute affect
the precision in the elicited preferences ...
Dealing with ignored attributes in choice experiments on valuation of Sweden’s environmental quality objectives
(2008-02-20)
In this paper we use follow-up questions to investigate whether attributes have been ignored in a
choice experiment on environmental goods. This information is subsequently used in the estimation of
the model by restricting ...
Cost of Power Outages for Manufacturing Firms in Ethiopia: A Stated Preference Study
(2018-05)
Having a reliable supply of electricity is essential for the operation of any firm. In most developing countries, however, electricity supply is highly unreliable. In this study, we estimate the cost of power outages for ...
Paying for Mitigation: A Multiple Country Study
(2010-05-17)
Unique survey data from a contingent valuation study conducted in three different countries (China, Sweden, and the United States) were used to investigate the ordinary citizen’s willingness to pay (WTP) for reducing CO2 ...
Intertemporal choice shifts in households: Do they occur and are they good?
(2013-06)
We examine whether and to what extent joint choices are more or less patient and time-consistent than individual choices in households. We use data from an artefactual field experiment where both individual and joint time ...
Windfall vs. Earned Money in the Laboratory: Do They Affect the Behavior of Men and Women Differently?
(2010-08)
We experimentally investigate, using a dictator game, if the effects of windfall and earned
endowments on behavior differ between men and women genders. In line with previous
studies, we find that windfall endowments ...
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 ...