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Noise and bias in eliciting preferences

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dc.creator Hey, John Denis
dc.creator Morone, Andrea
dc.creator Schmidt, Ulrich
dc.date 2007
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T06:05:47Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T06:05:47Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/4098
dc.identifier ppn:549781129
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/4098
dc.description In the context of eliciting preferences for decision making under risk, we ask the question: "which might be the 'best' method for eliciting such preferences?". It is well known that different methods differ in terms of the bias in the elicitation; it is rather less well-known that different methods differ in terms of their noisiness. The optimal trade-off depends upon the relative magnitudes of these two effects. We examine four different elicitation mechanisms (pairwise choice, willingness-to-pay, willingness-to-accept, and certainty equivalents) and estimate both effects. Our results suggest that economists might be better advised to use what appears to be a relatively inefficient elicitation technique (i.e. pairwise choice) in order to avoid the bias in better-known and more widely-used techniques.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) Kiel
dc.relation Kieler Arbeitspapiere 1386
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject C91
dc.subject C81
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject Pairwise choice
dc.subject WTP
dc.subject WTA
dc.subject Errors
dc.subject Noise
dc.subject Biases
dc.subject Entscheidung bei Risiko
dc.subject Willingness to pay
dc.subject Experiment
dc.subject Modell-Spezifikation
dc.subject Statistischer Fehler
dc.subject Bias
dc.subject Präferenztheorie
dc.title Noise and bias in eliciting preferences
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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