Mesurer les préférences du consommateur pour orienter les décisions des pouvoirs publics: l'apport de la méthode expérimentale

Stéphane Robin, Anne Rozan and Bernard Ruffieux
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Stéphane Robin: GATE Lyon Saint-Étienne - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon - Saint-Etienne - ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - UCBL - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - Université de Lyon - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Anne Rozan: ENGEES - École Nationale du Génie de l'Eau et de l'Environnement de Strasbourg
Bernard Ruffieux: GAEL - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquée = Grenoble Applied Economics Laboratory - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

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Abstract: To assess how a public decision can affect citizens'interests, we need to estimate individual preferences. Economists usually assess individual preference through a market decision. Most often, however, public decisions have an impact on non-market goods. Without a market to refer to, evaluating a public decision's effect on individual welfare poses a methodological challenge. Despite major improvements, preference studies based on hypothetical questions for example, using a survey or contingent valuation are biased. The experimental methodology is a promising alternative for directly obtaining an individual valuation of a public decision. Indeed, the use of the experimental method in preference studies is growing, and our paper discusses this approach. In particular, we answer the following questions: Why is it worth using the experimental method to evaluate individual preference? And how should we conduct this kind of experiment?

Keywords: PREFERENCE INDIVIDUELLE; INDIVIDUAL PREFERENCE; ECONOMIE EXPERIMENTALE; EXPERIMENTAL ECONOMICS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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Published in Economie et Prévision, 2008, 182, pp.113-127. ⟨10.3406/ecop.2008.7755⟩

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DOI: 10.3406/ecop.2008.7755

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