Publication

Nov 2007

This paper explores what might be the best method to elicit people's preferences, focusing on decisions taken under risk. It looks at pairwise choice, willingness-to-pay, willingness-to-accept and certainty equivalents as different elicitation mechanisms and examines their bias and noisiness. The authors conclude that economists might be better advised to use the pairwise choice method in order to avoid the bias of the other techniques.

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Author John D Hey, Andrea Morone, Ulrich Schmidt
Series Kiel Institute Working Papers
Issue 1386
Publisher Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Copyright © 2007 Kiel Institute for the World Economy
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