A hybrid stated-preference model is presented that combines the referendum contingent valuation response format with an experimentally designed set of attributes. A sequence of valuation questions is asked to a random sample in a mailout mail-back format. Econometric analysis shows greater discrimination between alternatives in the final choice in the sequence, and the vector of preference para...

This paper describes an abstract framework called valuation network for computation of marginals using local computation. In valuation networks, we represent knowledge using functions called valuations. Making inferences involves using two operators called marginalization and combination. Marginalization tells us how to coarsen a valuation by eliminating some variables. Combination tells us how...

The Effect of Power Outages and Cheap Talk on Willingness to Pay to Reduce Outages Using an open-ended contingent valuation survey, we analyze how (i) experience of a power outage due to one of the worst storms ever to hit Sweden and (ii) a cheap talk script affect respondents’ WTP to avoid power outages. Experience significantly increases and a cheap talk script decreases the proportion of res...

Large enterprises have been at the forefront of environmental management with active participation in industrywide programs and adoption a ‘beyond compliance’ approach. The present study revisits premise environmental–financial linkage an Indian context focus on large listed enterprises. We develop comprehensive dataset 459 companies covering major manufacturing service sectors economy over ele...

the aim of this paper is to generalize the‎‎notion of pseudo-almost valuation domains to arbitrary‎ ‎commutative rings‎. ‎it is shown that the classes of chained rings‎ ‎and pseudo-valuation rings are properly contained in the class of‎ ‎pseudo-almost valuation rings; also the class of pseudo-almost‎ ‎valuation rings is properly contained in the class of quasi-local‎ ‎rings with linearly ordere...

1. In decision IX/6, on incentive measures, Conference of the Parties at its ninth meeting requested the Executive Secretary, “in cooperation with relevant organizations and initiatives, to examine the international dimension of how monitoring can support the implementation of valuation tools and positive incentive measures” (paragraph 11). This examination was to draw on earlier work undertake...

Most research focuses on actual affect, or the affective states that people actually feel. In this article, I demonstrate the importance and utility of studying ideal affect, or the affective states that people ideally want to feel. First, I define ideal affect and describe the cultural causes and behavioral consequences of ideal affect. To illustrate these points, I compare American and East A...

This paper reconsiders two fundamental assumptions (i.e., on the quality of information product and the self-selection behavior of customers) that decide the optimality of versioning strategy (or vertically differentiated product line) for information products. The quality of an information product is clarified in terms of functional and nonfunctional features. The customers' behavior of self-s...

The valuation monoids and pseudo-valuation monoids have been established through valuation domains and pseudo-valuation domains respectively. In this study we continue these lines to describe the almost valuation monoids, almost pseudo-valuation monoids and pseudoalmost valuation monoids. Further we also characterized the newly described monoids as the spirit of valuation monoids pseudo-valuati...

We consider the problem of designing truthful auctions, when the bidders’ valuations have a public and a private component. In particular, we consider combinatorial auctions where the valuation of an agent i for a set S of items can be expressed as vif(S), where vi is a private single parameter of the agent, and the function f is publicly known. Our motivation behind studying this problem is tw...