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Professor Riccardo Scarpa's Outputs (3)

Handling resolvable uncertainty from incomplete scenarios in future doctors' job choice – probabilities vs discrete choices (2019)
Journal Article
Pedersen, L., Mørkbak, M., & Scarpa, R. (2020). Handling resolvable uncertainty from incomplete scenarios in future doctors' job choice – probabilities vs discrete choices. Journal of Choice Modelling, 34, Article 100199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocm.2019.100199

Health economists often use discrete choice experiments (DCEs) to predict behavior, as actual market data is often unavailable. Manski (1990) argues that due to the incompleteness of the hypothetical scenarios used in DCEs, substantial uncertainty su... Read More about Handling resolvable uncertainty from incomplete scenarios in future doctors' job choice – probabilities vs discrete choices.

Public Resource Allocation, Strategic Behavior, and Status Quo Bias in Choice Experiments (2019)
Journal Article
Silz-Carson, K., Chilton, S., Hutchinson, W., & Scarpa, R. (2020). Public Resource Allocation, Strategic Behavior, and Status Quo Bias in Choice Experiments. Public Choice, 185(1-2), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-019-00735-y

Choice experiments, a survey methodology in which consumers face a series of choice tasks requiring them to indicate their most preferred option from a choice set containing two or more options, are used to generate estimates of consumer preferences... Read More about Public Resource Allocation, Strategic Behavior, and Status Quo Bias in Choice Experiments.

Consumer switching in retail electricity markets: Is price all that matters? (2019)
Journal Article
Ndebele, T., Marsh, D., & Scarpa, R. (2019). Consumer switching in retail electricity markets: Is price all that matters?. Energy Economics, 83, 88-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2019.06.012

We model consumer switching in retail electricity markets in New Zealand to identify important determinants of switching and estimate willingness to pay (WTP) for six non-price attributes of electricity services, namely, call waiting time, length of... Read More about Consumer switching in retail electricity markets: Is price all that matters?.