On the origin of the WTA–WTP divergence in public good valuation

Emmanuel Flachaire, Guillaume Hollard and Jason Shogren

Theory and Decision, 2013, vol. 74, issue 3, 437 pages

Abstract: This paper tests whether individual perceptions of markets as good or bad for a public good is correlated with the propensity to report gaps in willingness to pay and willingness to accept revealed within an incentive compatible mechanism. Identifying people based on a notion of market affinity, we find a substantial part of the gap can be explained by controlling for some variables that were not controlled for before. This result suggests the valuation gap for public goods can be reduced through well-defined variables. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013

Keywords: Willingness to pay; Willingness to accept; Experimental economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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