according to the increasing importance of green space and environment, decision making of environmental policy is growing at the national level and internationally, so there is an urgent need for information that could be used to promote efficient environmental decision making. in this study the economic benefits associated with eram garden of shiraz, is estimated using a double-bounded dichoto...

Purpose: Consumption of organic food among consumers in Saudi Arabia has increased recent times due to awareness health benefits food. The purpose this paper is estimate the average amount a consumer willing pay for fresh milk. Research Method: This used Double Bounded Dichotomous Choice (DBDC) model identify key determinants consumers’ willingness (WTP) Findings: results showed that product la...

In this paper, I consider the social choice problems such that (i) the set of alternatives can be categorized into two groups based on some prominent and objective feature and (ii) the agents have strict preferences over the candidates. I introduce a notion of linear dichotomous domains to describe a class of plausible preference profiles in these social choice problems. My main result is a cha...

Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. This paper combines fishing trip decisions – made before observing trip outcomes – with responses to set of double-bounded dichotomous choice CV questions regarding the outcome of the trip, to explore cognitive elements of choice and their i...

Prominent scholars engaged in comparative research on democratic regimes are in sharp disagreement over the choice between a dichotomous or graded approach to the distinction between democracy and nondemocracy. This choice is substantively important because it affects the findings of empirical research. It is methodologically important because it raises basic issues, faced by both qualitative a...

Many hard computational social choice problems are known to become tractable when voters’ preferences belong to a restricted domain, such as those of singlepeaked or single-crossing preferences. However, to date, all algorithmic results of this type have been obtained for the setting where each voter’s preference list is a total order of candidates. The goal of this paper is to extend this line...

The common interpretation given to choice behavior that satisfies the traditional revealed preference axioms is that it results from the maximization of a single preference. We show that choice data alone does not enable one to rule out the possibility that the choice behavior that satisfies the revealed preference axioms is instead the result of the aggregation of a collection of distinct pref...

the water framework directive (wfd) is a far-reaching piece of european communitylegislation. estimates of the benefits of wfd programs are needed at the present time for two reasons. first,the wfd itself allows for derogations from the general requirement of member states to reach good ecological status in all water bodies by 2015 in cases where the costs of doing so can be shown to be disprop...