With the growing ageing population in China, elderly home development has attracted sizable interest from both real estate developers and institutional investors. Whilst demand is evidenced by demographics, market value of elder remains unknown. This study aims at investigating homes consumer (elderly people)’s willingness-to-pay (WTP) using Contingent Valuation Method (CVM). Over 500 responden...

The primary objective of this research is to estimate the willingness pay in Ghana for reliable piped water services. Three competing economic valuation approaches are used do this: contingent method (CVM), hedonic pricing (HPM) and travel cost (TCM). These methods allow easy robustness tests estimates serves as an improvement on previous research. Using survey data from a sample 1,650 urban ho...

Håkansson, C. 2007. Cost-Benefit Analysis and Valuation UncertaintyEmpirical Contributions and Methodological Developments of a Study on Trade-offs between Hydropower and Wild Salmon. Doctor’s dissertation. ISSN 1652-6880, ISBN 91-576-7340-4 This thesis addresses the economic trade-offs between hydropower and fish production, based on an empirical assessment of the costs and benefits of changin...

Contingent valuation (CV) and conjoint analysis were used to estimate landowner’s willingness to pay (WTP) for ecosystem management on non-industrial private forest land. The results suggest that even when conjoint and CV questions are the same, except for rating and pricing format, respectively, WTP estimates are quite different. Since most conjoint models essentially count ‘maybe’ responses t...

Urban and Wildland-urban interface area residents of Larimer and Boulder counties in Northern Colorado were surveyed using a dichotomous choice contingent valuation approach in order to compare the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for fuels treatment programs of counties with different demographic attributes and the WTP of different geographical groups within each county. This paper reports preliminary...

forests and rangelands are the most important natural ecosystems which provide many economic benefits to the society due to their biodiversity and ecological functionalities. dashtenaz wildlife refuge, sari, is a sylvan region, covering 55 ha of rangeland with abundant diversity, is refuge of an endangered species of deer called dama mesopotamica. in this study, contingent valuation method (cvm...

Dengan adanya pembangunan Fly over K.H. Noer Ali oleh pihak Summarecon Bekasi, tentunya akan memberikan banyak pengaruh terhadap kegiatan ekonomi masyarakat Kota Bekasi secara keseluruhan. Maka dari itu, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat kesediaan apabila diminta membayar biaya jasa pemeliharaan dan faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi responden nilai tersebut dengan menggunakan metode kontinge...

economic valuation of water is useful in the administration and management of water. population growth and urbanization caused municipal water demand increase in iran. limited water resource supply and urban water network capacity raised complexity in water resources management. present condition suggests using economic value of water as a criterion for allocating policies and feasibility study...

This paper presents estimates of the economic impact of recreational fisheries on the formal economy of Denmark. It utilises primary data from a CVM (contingent valuation method)-mail survey conducted in 1999 in Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden and Iceland. The sample used in this paper covers 546 Danish respondents (recreational fishermen only). The questions on expenditure were asked in order...