Accounting for uncertainty in willingness to pay for environmental benefits

RA Daziano, M Achtnicht - Energy Economics, 2014 - Elsevier
Energy Economics, 2014Elsevier
Previous literature on the distribution of willingness to pay has focused on its heterogeneity
distribution without addressing exact interval estimation. In this paper we derive and analyze
Bayesian confidence sets for quantifying uncertainty in the determination of willingness to
pay for carbon dioxide abatement. We use two empirical case studies: household decisions
of energy-efficient heating versus insulation, and purchase decisions of ultra-low-emission
vehicles. We first show that deriving credible sets using the posterior distribution of the …
Abstract
Previous literature on the distribution of willingness to pay has focused on its heterogeneity distribution without addressing exact interval estimation. In this paper we derive and analyze Bayesian confidence sets for quantifying uncertainty in the determination of willingness to pay for carbon dioxide abatement. We use two empirical case studies: household decisions of energy-efficient heating versus insulation, and purchase decisions of ultra-low-emission vehicles. We first show that deriving credible sets using the posterior distribution of the willingness to pay is straightforward in the case of deterministic consumer heterogeneity. However, when using individual estimates, which is the case for the random parameters of the mixed logit model, it is complex to define the distribution of interest for the interval estimation problem. This latter problem is actually more involved than determining the moments of the heterogeneity distribution of the willingness to pay using frequentist econometrics. A solution that we propose is to derive and then summarize the distribution of point estimates of the individual willingness to pay under different loss functions.
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