Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Series Preface; PART II HEDONIC MODELS; Theoretical Foundations of Property Value Models and Welfare Analysis; 41 Hedonic Prices and Implicit Markets: Product Differentiation in Pure Competition; 42 On the Estimation of Structural Hedonic...

The task of modeling the recreation demand for geographically large sites, such as rivers and beaches or large parks with multiple entrances, is often challenged by incomplete information regarding the access point used by the individual. Traditionally, analysts have relied upon convenient...

The Kuhn-Tucker model provides a utility theoretic framework for estimating preferences over commodities for which individuals choose not to consume one or more of the goods. This paper provides an application of the Kuhn-Tucker model to the problem of recreation demand and site selection,...

The focal point of the revealed preference (RP) valuation literature, including recreation demand and random utility maximization (RUM) models, has been on eliciting the "use" value associated with environmental amenities, i.e., that portion of value associated with direct use of a resource....

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