Using Experimental Methods in Environmental and Resource Economics

Edited by John A. List, Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Economics Department, University of Chicago, US

• Contents:Introduction1. Anchoring and Yea-saying with Private Goods: An ExperimentIan Bateman, Alistair Munro, Bruce Rhodes, Chris V. Starmer and Robert Sugden2. Market Price Endogeneity and Accuracy of Value Elicitation MechanismsJayson L. Lusk and Matthew Rousu3. Hypothetical Bias Over Uncertain OutcomesGlenn W. Harrison4. The Use of a Real-Money Experiment in a Stated-Preference SurveyJohn Horowitz5. Mechanisms for Addressing Third-Party Impacts Resulting From Voluntary Water TransfersJames J. Murphy, Ariel Dinar, Richard E. Howitt, Erin Mastrangelo, Stephen J. Rassenti and Vernon L. Smith6. Peer Enforcement in CPR Experiments: The Relative Effectiveness of Sanctions and Transfer Rewards, and the Role of Behavioral TypesDaan van Soest and Jana Vyrastekova7. Experimental Approaches to Understanding Inter-cultural Conflict Over ResourcesPaul J. Ferraro and Ronald G. Cummings8. Behavioural Economics and the Valuation of Non-marketed Goods and Services: The Lab, the Behavioral Anomalies and the PolicymakerWiktor Adamowicz, Jonathan E. Alevy and John A. ListIndex

'John List and his collaborators have married experimental economics on the one hand with environmental and resource economics on the other. It's a happy marriage, indeed, and scholars from either camp will benefit from a careful reading of these most interesting papers.'