Valuing Environmental and Natural Resources

The Econometrics of Non-market Valuation

Timothy C. Haab, Kenneth E. McConnell (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2002
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84064-704-4 (ISBN)

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Non-market valuation has become a broadly accepted and widely practiced means of measuring the economic values of the environment and natural resources. In this book, the authors provide a guide to the statistical and econometric practices that economists employ in estimating non-market values.The authors develop the econometric models that underlie the basic methods: contingent valuation, travel cost models, random utility models and hedonic models. They analyze the measurement of non-market values as a procedure with two steps: the estimation of parameters of demand and preference functions and the calculation of benefits from the estimated models. Each of the models is carefully developed from the preference function to the behavioral or response function that researchers observe. The models are then illustrated with datasets that characterize the kinds of data researchers typically deal with.

The real world data and clarity of writing in this book will appeal to environmental economists, students, researchers and practitioners in multilateral banks and government agencies.

Timothy C. Haab, Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics, Ohio State University, US and Kenneth E. McConnell, Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, US

Contents: Preface 1. Welfare Economics for Non-market Valuation 2. Parametric Models for Contingent Valuation 3. Distribution-Free Models for Contingent Valuation 4. The Distribution of Willingness to Pay 5. Topics in Discrete Choice Contingent Valuation 6. Modeling the Demand for Recreation 7. Single Site Demand Estimation 8. Site Choice Models 9. Hedonic Price Equations 10. New Directions in Non-market Valuation References A. Maximum Likelihood Estimation B. Some Useful Results Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.5.2002
Reihe/Serie	New Horizons in Environmental Economics series
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Ökonometrie
ISBN-10	1-84064-704-3 / 1840647043
ISBN-13	978-1-84064-704-4 / 9781840647044
Zustand	Neuware