Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10479350 | Journal of Public Economics | 2005 | 20 Pages |
Abstract
This paper reports an 'adversarial collaboration'-a project carried out by two individuals or research groups who, having proposed conflicting hypotheses, seek to resolve their dispute. It describes an experiment which investigates whether, when individuals consider giving up money in exchange for goods, they construe money outlays as losses or as foregone gains. This issue bears on the explanation of the widely observed disparity between willingness-to-pay (WTP) and willingness-to-accept (WTA) valuations of costs and benefits, which has proved problematic for contingent valuation studies. The results of the experiment are broadly consistent with the hypothesis that money outlays are perceived as losses.
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Authors
Ian Bateman, Daniel Kahneman, Alistair Munro, Chris Starmer, Robert Sugden,