Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/4098 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1386
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
In the context of eliciting preferences for decision making under risk, we ask the question: "which might be the 'best' method for eliciting such preferences?". It is well known that different methods differ in terms of the bias in the elicitation; it is rather less well-known that different methods differ in terms of their noisiness. The optimal trade-off depends upon the relative magnitudes of these two effects. We examine four different elicitation mechanisms (pairwise choice, willingness-to-pay, willingness-to-accept, and certainty equivalents) and estimate both effects. Our results suggest that economists might be better advised to use what appears to be a relatively inefficient elicitation technique (i.e. pairwise choice) in order to avoid the bias in better-known and more widely-used techniques.
Subjects: 
WTP
WTA
Errors
Noise
Biases
Pairwise choice
JEL: 
C91
C81
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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