Payments-for-Ecosystem-Service (PES) schemes increasingly use auctions to target funds to low-cost providers, aiming to increase efficiency and value-for-money. To date, these PES auctions have universally employed ``Pay-as-Bid'' (PaB) pricing, in which successful bids are paid the amount they...

We present an experiment designed to investigate the presence and nature of ordering effects within repeated response stated preference studies. We formulate a general structural model of such effects and use this to isolate signature patterns for position-dependent effects (learning about...

The choice experiment elicitation format confronts survey respondents with repeated choice tasks. Particularly within the context of valuing pure public goods, this repetition raises two issues. First, does advanced awareness of multiple tasks influence stated preferences from the outset, and...