Browsing by Author "Thiene, Mara"
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Using flexible taste distributions to value collective reputation for environmentally-friendly production methods
Scarpa, Riccardo; Thiene, Mara; Marangon, Francesco (2007-11)In this paper we investigate consumer preferences for various environmentally-friendly production systems for carrots. We use discrete-choice multi-attribute stated-preference data to explore the effect of the collective ... -
Utility in willingness to pay space: a tool to address confounding random scale effects in destination choice to the Alps
Scarpa, Riccardo; Thiene, Mara; Train, Kenneth (Oxford University Press, 2008)We compare two approaches for estimating the distribution of consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) in discrete choice models. The usual procedure is to estimate the distribution of the utility coefficients and then derive ... -
Utility in WTP space: a tool to address confounding random scale effects in destination choice to the Alps
Scarpa, Riccardo; Thiene, Mara; Train, Kenneth (2006-12)Destination choice models with individual-specific taste variation have become the presumptive analytical approach in applied nonmarket valuation. Under the usual specification, tastes are represented by coefficients of ... -
The value of collective reputation for environmentally friendly production methods: the case of Val di Gresta
Scarpa, Riccardo; Thiene, Mara; Marangon, Francesco (2007-09)This paper investigates preferences for various environment-friendly production systems using 1949 choices from a sample of 240 respondents that chose amongst different types of carrots. The and multi-attribute stated-preference ... -
The value of collective reputation for environmentally-friendly production methods: The case of Val di Gresta
Scarpa, Riccardo; Thiene, Mara; Marangon, Francesco (Berkeley Electronic Press, 2007-09)In this paper we investigate consumers' preferences for various environment-friendly production systems for carrots. We use discrete-choice multi-attribute stated-preference data to explore the effect of collective reputations ...