Abstract:
It is usual to estimate willingness-to-pay in discrete choice models through Logit models –or their expanded versions-. Nevertheless, these models have very restrictive distributional assumptions. This paper is intended to examine the above- mentioned issue and to propose an alternative estimation using non-parametric techniques (through Simple Index Models). Furthermore, this paper introduces an empirical application of willingness-to-pay for improved subway travel times in the City of Buenos Aires.
JEL-codes:C2L9 (search for similar items in EconPapers) New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dcm and nep-ecm Date: 2005-04-23 Note: Type of Document - pdf; pages: 13