Value learning and the willingness to accept–willingness to pay disparity
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Keywords
Discovered preference hypothesis; Value uncertainty; Value learning; Willingness to accept–willingness to pay disparity; Paired comparison experiments;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D01 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
- D80 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - General
- Q51 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Valuation of Environmental Effects
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