Do Experience and Cheap Talk influence Willingness to Pay in an Open-Ended Contingent Valuation Survey?
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Note: Published with new title "The effect of power outages and cheap talk on willingness to pay to reduce outages" in Energy Economics, 2011, Vol. 33, pp. 790-798.
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Keywords
Contingent Valuation; Cheap talk; Information; Power outages;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C25 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
- D12 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
- Q41 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Demand and Supply; Prices
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