Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Revealed Preference"”.
-
Revealed Preference Analysis Under Nontransitive Preferences
… presents three chapters that examine revealed preference theory under the assumption that economic agents may have nontransitive preferences. The first chapter introduces the Random Preference Model (RPM), a framework similar to the Random Utility Model (RUM) designed to explain …
-
A test of revealed preference theorems
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Agricultural Economics, 1970
-
Stated and Revealed Preference Valuation of Forest Ecosystems
Stated preference and revealed preference are two commonly conducted non-market value evaluation methods which can also be applied to make evaluation of forest ecosystem. In the application of these evaluation methodologies, there always exists limitation from the data collection and empirical …
-
Empirical Studies of Discrete Choice Models in Health, Fertility, and Voting
… choices that people are observed to make, i.e., revealed preference (RP) information. From these data we can quantify the influence of particular variables in the real choice context; for example, how important is price in the decision to travel by train? There are, however, potential problems …
-
The valuation of Intaka Island : a comparison of the contingent valuation method and hedonic pricing analysis
… valuation is the most frequently used stated preference technique, while hedonic pricing analysis is an alternative revealed preference technique employed for the determination of the value attached to a public good. This paper uses both techniques to study the utility generated by Intaka …
-
Valuation methods of biodiversity
… methods can be divided into two groups: stated preference methods and revealed preference methods. The former employ surveys, bidding formats, open-ended questions, and hypothetical scenarios to determine how much respondents value various aspects of biodiversity. While stated preference methods …
-
Development of a time-dependent, audio-visual, stated choice method of data collection for hurricane evacuation behavior
Revealed preference is the traditional method to collect hurricane evacuation behavior data. However, revealed preference surveys, as they are currently administered, have the disadvantage that they are unable to collect time-sensitive and policy-sensitive data needed to test evacuation policies. …
-
Rationalizing Mechanism Preference in Independent Private Value Auctions
… conduct a laboratory experiment to examine the preferences of sellers and buyers for the reserve price mechanism and test their rationalizability. We use a stylized independent private value environment, a second price auction institution and a first price auction institution to investigate if …
-
An analysis of revenue sharing's performance in achieving its formula goals
… structure of the distribution formula, uses a revealed preference technique to ascertain four program goals inherent in the structure of the distribution formula.
-
Hedonic Valuation of Forested Riparian Buffers Along Rivers in Northwestern North Carolina
This revealed preference study estimates the implicit value associated with owning a home along a river and tree coverage of riparian areas along rivers. The setting of this study is Ashe and Watauga Counties in Northwestern North Carolina and the two rivers that flow through those counties: New …
-
Revealing Preferences: a neuroeconometric approach to understanding decision-making behaviour
… of multiple components (bundles). We tested if preferences for bundles followed basic notions of revealed preference theory; preferences are only revealed at the time of choice and cannot be predicted by objective properties of a reward. Rather, preferences are subjective and independent of the …
-
Estimating demand for new modes of transportation using a context-aware stated preference survey
… presents the design of a context-aware stated preference survey that will be used to estimate the demand for new transportation modes and services. It builds on the Future Mobility Survey, a smartphone-based prompted-recall survey that accurately gathers revealed preference information on …
-
Approaches for identifying consumer preferences for the design of technology products : a case study of residential solar panels
This thesis investigates ways to obtain consumer preferences for technology products to help designers identify the key attributes that contribute to a product's market success. A case study of residential solar PV panels is conducted in the context of the California, USA market within the …
-
We All Want to Change the World: How Behavioral Insights Can Help Reduce Carbon Emissions
… the widespread acceptance of theories reliant on revealed preference with homogenous rational agents led to the normalization of overconsumption and environmentally destructive behavior. In the 1980’s, economists began systematically exposing universal shortcomings in human rationality, many of …
-
Consumer perceptions of and willingness to pay for lettuce from different agricultural production systems
… farming. We conducted Becker-DeGroot-Marschak revealed preference auctions with over 100 participants to determine WTP, where participants were randomly assigned to receive (or not receive) information on the three production systems. Results suggest that consumers generally perceive vertical …
-
Essays on the structural estimation and analysis of corporate and industrial markets
… state of incorporation or reincorporation. The revealed preference embedded in this observable choice is used as window into the heterogeneous preferences within and across firms, yielding several findings: For example, I find, surprisingly, that firms are very responsive to incorporation and …
-
A Modern Approach for Measuring Environmental, Social, and Governance Preferences
… to accurately and transparently reflect the ESG preferences of individual and institutional clients. To address this issue, we developed the ESG Machine, a website used to measure ESG preferences by applying methods from revealed preference theory. In a short time, this website gathered 17,248 …
-
Essays on Methods to Support Ecosystem Accounting
… ecosystem services (RES) and examine the use of revealed preference techniques to estimate their exchange value, further supporting the use of nonmarket valuation techniques in EA. The third chapter focuses on another critical challenge in EA: the lack of consistent, accessible, and scalable …
-
Migration and development in Mexican communities
… forming one of the world's largest labor flows. Revealed preference suggests we can assume that this migration is beneficial for the migrants themselves; however, its effects on those who remain in Mexico are ambiguous.
-
Aviation Effects on Local Business: Mapping Community Impact and Policy Strategies for Noise Remediation
… at a given location. This study also acts as a revealed preference approach for assessing the implicit costs of aviation noise and the role of regulators in responding to those costs. No statistically significant aggregate effect of aviation noise on business activity was found. For outlier …
Page 1 of 4