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The Political Man and Contingent Valuation: Motives Do Count

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Karine Nyborg (Statistics Norway)

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In addition to his role as a consumer pursuing his own interests, an individual may also regard himself as an ethical observer, judging matters from society's point of view. It is not clear which of these possibly conflicting roles respondents in contingent valuation studies take on. This leads to ambiguities in the interpretation of reported willingness to pay. I formalize this problem using a simple model of respondents' behaviour, based on the concept of subjective social welfare functions. The model may provide one explanation to several puzzling phenomena often found in contingent valuation studies; such as large discrepancies between willingness to pay and willingness to accept, frequent occurrence of "outliers" willing to pay extremely large amounts, and certain kinds of framing effects.

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Paper provided by Research Department of Statistics Norway in its series Discussion Papers with number 180.

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Keywords: Environmental valuation; social welfare judgements; non-unique preference orderings.;

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A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
D11 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Consumer Economics: Theory
D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
Q21 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Demand and Supply (the Commons)

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  1. Karine Nyborg and Inger Spangen, 1997. "Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Democratic Ideal," Discussion Papers 205, Research Department of Statistics Norway. [Downloadable!]
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