Environmental and Resource Valuation with Revealed Preferences A Theoretical Guide to Empirical Models /

• Main Authors: Bockstael, Nancy E. (Author), McConnell, Kenneth E. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: The Economics of Non-Market Goods and Resources, 7
• Subjects: Environmental management.; Microeconomics.; Economic growth.; Environmental economics.; Economics.; Environmental Economics.; Environmental Management.; Economic Growth.

Environmental and Resource Valuation with Revealed Preferences: A Theoretical Guide to Empirical Models provides a systematic review of those economic approaches for valuing the environment and natural resources that use information on what people do, not what they say. The authors have worked on mo...

Table of Contents:

• Setting the Stage
• Welfare Economics for Price Changes
• The Concept of Weak Complementarity
• Implementing Weak Complementarity
• Measuring Welfare in Discrete Choice Models
• Hedonic Models of Heterogeneous Goods
• Hedonic Wage Analysis
• Public Goods in Household Production
• The Environment as an Input into Firms’ Production
• Some Broader Considerations.