As the use of payments for environmental services (PES) programs for conservation has
grown in developing countries, the use of stated preference methods, particularly contingent …

Because hedonic products consist predominantly of experience attributes, often with many
available alternatives, choosing the “right” one is a demanding task for consumers. Decision …

Predicting group decisions under uncertainty requires disentangling individual members'
utilities over the consequences of choice, their expectations for uncertain outcomes, and …

The authors propose a new structural solution to the knowledge-sharing dilemma. They
show that simple auction mechanisms, which impose a rigid set of rules designed to …

This paper offers an analytical framework for analyzing joint and separate decisions by
couples in the context of choice experiments for nonmarket valuation. It reports results from …

Several disciplines, among them health, sociology, and economics, provide strong evidence
that social context is important to individual choices. It is therefore surprising that relatively …

There is growing demand for more pluralistic valuation approaches, for which Deliberative
Monetary Valuation (DMV) is suitable. Guidance is needed for valid and reliable DMV …

We analyse the preferences of students of Economics and Business Administration
regarding the characteristics of a postgraduate programme, and estimate their willingness to …

Preferences for attributes of complex goods may differ substantially among members of
households. Some of these goods, such as tap water, are jointly supplied at the household …

A crucial challenge for organizations is to pool and aggregate information effectively.
Traditionally, organizations have relied on committees and teams, but recently many …