Businesses and governments devote substantial resources to the collection and analysis of survey data concerning the public’s preferences. The possibility of strategic responses to such surveys is analyzed. Consequential and hypothetical surveys are formally defined. For the former the question is posed: what form should strategic behavior take? The particular form is shown to be context depend...

A growing body of literature demonstrates that many behavioral anomalies observed in stated-preference elicitation methods such as the contingent valuation method are also observed in actual choices and vice versa. This presentation furthers the argument that such parallel behaviors should be viewed as a strength of stated-preference methods. Three well-known anomalies observed in both stated p...