Events

Welcome coffee

Petr Mariel: Welcome to Prague

Klaus Glenk: Exploring the implementation of a Bayesian truth serum for mitigating hypothetical bias in environmental choice experiments

Cristiano Franceschinis: Informing congestion management in natural areas: a combination of hypothetical and real choice data

Milan Ščasný: Role of the Opt-Out in DCE

Gianluca Grilli: Hypothetical bias in future market goods: the case of nuclear fusion

Dinner

Anna Alberini: Non-market Valuation Methods: The State of the Art, Trends and Opportunities for Future Research

Coffee Break

Søren Bøye Olsen: Non-use values of biodiversity change

Julian Sagebiel: Integrating choice experiments into bioeconomic modelling: Theoretical considerations and methodical challenges

Fabian Dvorak: Cognitive Models of Bayesian Anchoring in Discrete Choice Experiments

Lunch

Round table: Choice set design and incentive compatibility

Peio Alcorta: Assessing the Influence of Partial Profile Design on Environmental Valuation: Exploring Electricity Mix Preferences Between Renewables and Non-Renewables in Italy

Coffee brak

Tomas Badura: Quantity and Quality changes in Spatial Site Choice Experiment for Biodiversity Policy Support

Claudia Bazzani: Optimal number of preference classes across software packages

Sandra Notaro: Modeling choice card distance in pivot design DCE - effects on different characterization of the reference alternative.

Dinner

Petr Mariel, Jürgen Meyerhoff: Welcome

Julian Sagebiel: Spatially explicit valuation of natural capital in different European countries

Tobias Börger: Threat perception and the valuation of defence policy options

Ulf Liebe: Environmental quality and neighbourhood choice

Dinner

Stephane Hess: Choice modelling AND machine learning Choice modelling VS machine learning

Coffee Break

Round table/Debate: How to teach choice experiments. What are the essentials?

Lunch

Jette Bredahl Jacobsen: Recreationists' preferences for rewilding

Thijs Dekker: Extensions of the application of the EM algorithm to choice modelling and the role of local optima

Petr Mariel: Endogeneity in the allocation function of a latent class model

Coffee break

Cristiano Franceschinis: How to nudge consumers towards more sustainable milk choices? A real purchase experiment

Jürgen Meyerhoff: A basket based choice experiment in the garden

Dinner

Petr Mariel, Jürgen Meyerhoff, Mara Thiene: 10 Years of envecho (or "enveco"?)

José Ignacio Hernández: Explainable AI to get information from different type of choice data

Thijs Dekker: Is there a need for machine learning in the Env Econ valuation literature?

Sander van Cranenburgh: Using computer vision-based discrete choice models in environmental economics

Coffee break

Mark Koetse: Introducting ABM and CE

Marthe Wens: Example of combining ABM and CE: advantages?

Lunch

Julian Sagebiel: Pre-registration for DCE as part of Open Science

Tobias Börger, Jürgen Meyerhoff: Evaluating the quality of stated choice data

Søren Bøye Olsen: Q-methodology as a tool to inform questionnaire development concerning valuation of biodiversity

Coffee break

Danny Campbell: R workflow issues and projects

Wiktor Budziński: Using multiple discrete-continuous choice models in stated preference research

Diego Begalli: Opening session

Julian Sagebiel: Consequentiality in Discrete Choice Experiments: New insights from two surveys on urban green

Søren Bøye Olsen: Ecosystem service outcome uncertainty and risk preferences in CE

Cristiano Franceschinis: Time allocation for recreational activities: a discrete-continuous approach

Coffee break

Mikolaj Czajkovski: Endogeneity of self-reported consequentiality in stated preference studies

Jurgen Meyerhoff: Site choice when there are no sites: preferences for close to home forest recreation

Erlend Sandorf: Identifying consideration sets through search for alternatives

Lunch

Verity Watson: Using Discrete Choice Experiments to Value Health and Health Care. Review of current state of art.

Coffee break

Sandra Notaro: What’s the weather like? Understanding the Influence of Ambient Weather in Discrete Choice Experiments

Danny Campbell: Sampling choice data from geo-referenced populations: issues to consider

VALIDVALUES members meeting

Claudia Bazzani: Edible food packaging: behavioural factors influencing consumer preference formation

Marcella Veronesi: Behavioral Factors and Ethical Food Consumption: The Role of Guilt and Shame

Ulf Liebe: One Justice for All? Environmental Pollution and Different Notions of Distributive Justice

Coffee break

Mara Thiene: Valuing multifunctional role of soil: a comparison of Italian and Australian householders' preferences.

Petr Mariel: R Markdown: fully reproducible documents.

Closing session

Lunch

envecho members meeting - David Hoyos: Best Practice Recommendations

Giovanni Signorello, Maria DeSalvo: Opening Session

Thijs Dekker: Participatory budgeting a new tool to elicit preferences and values for environmental policies

Gianluca Grilli: Consequential expectations and survey engagement: preliminary results

Sandra Notaro: More than fear: Exploring the Role of Emotions on Stated Preferences for Wildlife Conservation

Coffee break

Mikolaj Czajkovski: Replication and robustness to alternative treatment of unobserved preference heterogeneity in DCE studies

Ivana Logar: Does attribute order influence attribute non-attendance in discrete choice experiments?

Søren Bøye Olsen: Incentivizing the quality of responses instead of quantity of responses in web-based DCE surveys

Lunch

Petr Mariel: Correlated or uncorrelated coefficients in a RPL model

Ainhoa Vega: Using shiny web apps for DCE online

Marek Giergiczny: External Tests of Scope in Choice Experiments

Coffee break

Mara Thiene: Antecedent Volition and spatial effects: can multiple goal pursuit mitigate distance decay

Jette Bredahl Jacobsen: A cross-country comparison of RP and SP estimated recreational values

Jurgen Meyerhoff: Individual decision styles and impact on choices regarding a good environmental status of the Baltic Sea

Riccardo Scarpa: A Monte Carlo Evaluation of the Logit-Mixed Logit under Asymmetry and Multimodality

Alberto Longo : Short term and long term benefits of energy security: WTP and WTA

Michela Faccioli: More in good condition or less in bad condition: framing effects in the valuation of ecosystem restoration

Coffee break

Klaus Glenk: WTP overshooting in DCE

Claudia Bazzani: Accounting for resolvable uncertainty: does it matter?

Maria DeSalvo: A pseudo-panel analysis of heterogeneity in revealed preferences for hunting

Closing session

Lunch

Michel Bierlaire (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne): Calculating indicators with Biogeme

Jette Bredahl Jacobsen (University of Copenhagen): Co-benefits and preferences for climate change policies

Danny Campbell (University of Stirling): Spatial sampling strategies for discrete choice experiments

Caspar Chorus (TU Delft): Taboo Trade-Off Aversion in Discrete Choice Experiments: A Case Study in the Domain of Transport Policy

Clau Dermont (University of Bern): Decision-Making in Direct Democracy: The Influence of Detailed Policy Information in Energy Policy

Stephane Hess (University of Leeds): Quo vadis choice modelling in environmental research: more of the same or brave new departures?

David Hoyos (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU): Understanding public preferences for ecosystem services with discrete choice experiments

Maarten Kroesen (TU Delft): The value of general and specific attitudes in predicting travel choice behavior

Ulf Liebe (University of Bern): Potentials of Using Discrete Choice Experiments in Sociological and Political Science Research

Petr Mariel (University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU): The influence of the number of choice alternatives

Jürgen Meyerhoff (TU Berlin): Can cheap talk nail down fat tails?

Soren Olsen (University of Copenhagen): Using choice models for benefit function transfer – A test of different approaches

Julian Sagebiel (Humboldt University Berlin): Spatial Interpolation of Willingness to Pay

Maria DeSalvo (University of Catania): Rock climbers and risk: preliminary results from a choice experiment study

Erlend Sandorf (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå): The effect of the attribute-by-alternative matrix display for choice cards

Mara Thiene (University of Padua): Flexible choice models: a Monte Carlo study and an empirical application

Wiktor Budzinski, Danny Campbell, Mikolaj Czajkowski, Urška Demšar, Nick Hanley: The overview of methods to account for spatially explicit preference heterogeneity

Danny Campbell, Wiktor Budzinski, Mikolaj Czajkowski, Nick Hanley: Using spatial latent class models to identify willingness to pay hot and cold spots

Julian Sagebiel, Klaus Glenk, Robert Johnston, Jürgen Meyerhoff: Comparing methods to account for spatial heterogeneity in discrete choice experiments

Danny Campbell: Spatial sampling strategies: should we be using them

David Hoyos: Dealing with endoneity in DCEs

Wiktor Budzinski, Mikolaj Czajkowski: Hybrid Choice Models and accounting for the endogeneity of indicator variables: a Monte Carlo investigation

Tobias Borger, Joseph Cook: The importance of variable order when constraining correlation patterns between random parameters

Marco Boeri, Alberto Longo: The impact on welfare analysis of not modelling scale heterogeneity: a Monte Carlo experiment

Keynote address
Caspar G. Chorus, Sander van Cranenburgh, Cristian Angelo Guevara: New insights on random regret minimization models

Marco Boeri, Alberto Longo: Information and choice paradigms in the preferences for renewable energy

Romain Crastes: What do we gain from introducing different decision rules in non-market valuation?

Marco Boeri, Alberto Longo: The regret of not modelling regret in choice experiments: a Monte Carlo investigation.

Petr Mariel: Basic discrete choice models in R

Keynote address
Carlsson, Mitesh Kataria, Elina Lampi: Old and new aspects of respondent behavior in stated preference surveys

Ulf Liebe, Klaus Glenk: Are the Effects of Real Incentives in Stated Choice Experiments Context Dependent? A Comparison of Choice Behavior in Online and Field Environments

Romain Crastes, Pierre-Alexandre Mahieu, Jordan Louviere, Ewa Zawojska: Rewarding truthful-telling in stated preference studies

Katarzyna Zagórska, Mikolaj Czajkowski, Nick Hanley, Jacob LaRiviere, Natalia Letki: Do social norms matter for environmental preferences?

Søren Bøye Olsen, Kennet Uggeldahl: Show me the money

Morten Raun Mørkbak: Time preferences and DCE

Ulf Liebe: A different approach to stated choice experiments: new developments in political science

Jürgen Meyerhoff: Good practice recommendations for DCE beginners - but not only

Jürgen Meyerhoff, Katrin Rehdanz, Christine Bertram: Preference matching effects - it's always good to have more choice options, isn't it?

Søren Bøye Olsen, Kennet Uggeldahl: DCE, eyetracking and "gaze-contingency"

Danny Campbell: Speedy Gonzales! Some thoughts on speeders and what to do with them

Mikolaj Czajkowski, Wiktor Budzinski: The effects of different specifications of standard deviations in the MXL model

Mikolaj Czajkowski, Wiktor Budzinski: Choice task blocking and design efficiency

Marco Boeri, Juan Marcos Gonzalez: Functional forms considerations in Maximum Acceptable Risk calculations

Morten Raun Mørkbak, Line Bjørnskov Pedersen, Riccardo Scarpa: Handling resolvable uncertainty from incomplete choice set scenarios - choice probabilities versus discrete choices

Mikolaj Czajkowski: Closing Session

Welcome and practical information

Mogens Fosgerau: Theory of DCM: properties of maximum utility

Coffee break

Riccardo Scarpa: The EM algorithm

Lunch

Discussion: The ongoing work with “Developing contemporary standards for stated-preference valuation”

• What is the current status? (Update from Riccardo Scarpa)
• Aspects of particular importance for environmental choice modelling, and in particular for our group?
• Is there any feedback we should report back to "The Istanbul Seven"?
• Any actions we need to take?

Coffee break

Chair: Thomas Lundhede - Paper Session 1

Klaus Glenk: Capturing spatial preferences for peatland restoration: challenges for survey design and experimental design

Mara Thiene: Choice set formation for outdoor destinations: the role of motivations and preference discrimination in site selection for the management of public expenditures on protected areas

Søren Bøye Olsen: Statistical versus response efficiency in efficient experimental designs for discrete choice experiments

Kennet Uggeldahl: Uncertainty in Stated Choice Experiments: Will Eye-Tracking provide useful measures?

Workshop + Dinner

Thijs Dekker: Bayesian modelling

Coffee break

Chair: Jette Bredahl Jacobsen - Paper Session 2

David Hoyos: Nonlinearities in the utility function: issues and challenges

Jürgen Meyerhoff: Disentangling the Status Quo and Zero Price Effect in Stated Choice Experiments

Mikołaj Czajkowski: Should we go hybrid? Investigating the extent of the bias resulting from direct incorporation of attitudinal measures into stated choice models

Petr Mariel: Impulsivity and task complexity in environmental valuation: A comparison of hybrid and random parameter choice model

Habtamu T. Kassahun: An Integrated Choice and Latent Variable Approach to Valuing Reliable Irrigation Services: Accounting for Expectations of Future Irrigation Productivity

Closing session and planning of next years' workshop

Lunch

Welcome – Alessandro Martin, Vice-Rector for International Relations

Chair: Mara Thiene - Random Regret Minimization

Marco Boeri, Mara Thiene: Outdoor recreations and risk: Is the choice among Alpine sites a matter of Utility maximization, Regret minimization or both?

Stephane Hess: Maximise your utility by minimising regret: contrasts between two behavioural paradigms

Thijs Dekker, Caspar G. Chorus: Insights into the Value of Time for Random Regret Minimization models

Chair: Mara Thiene - Latent Variable Models

Anna Bartczak, Susan Chilton, Petr Mariel and Jürgen Meyerhoff : The impact of latent risk preferences on valuing preservation of threatened lynx populations in Poland.

Mara Thiene, Cam Rungie, Riccardo Scarpa: The influences of individuals in joint decisions: recreation in the Alps in Italy

Lunch break

Chair: David Hoyos - Random Regret Minimization

Designing choice experiments: incentive incompatibility, choice complexity and path dependency

Malte Oehlmann, Priska Weller, Jürgen Meyerhoff: Complexity-induced Status Quo Effects in Discrete Choice Experiments

Malte Oehlmann, Geesche Merkle, Jürgen Meyerhoff: Institutions and Incentive Compatibility - Results form a Choice Experiment Regarding Externalities of Renewables

Thomas Hedemark Lundhede, Jette Bredahl Jacobsen, Bo Jellesmark Thorsen, Nick Hanley, Niels Strange: Path dependency and valuation

Chair: Petr Mariel - The impact of on-line surveys

Søren Bøye Olsen, Jürgen Meyerhoff: The influence of time-of-day and blood sugar levels on the response quality obtained in internet surveys

Klaus Glenk, Malte Oehlmann, Ulf Liebe, Jürgen Meyerhoff: Impact of use of mobile devices in completing online choice experiments

Chair: Jürgen Meyerhoff - Specific topics in DCM

Riccardo Scarpa: Non-parametric estimation in wtp space

Stephane Hess, Marek Giergiczny: Intra-respondent heterogeneity in stated choice surveys and contrasts with uncertainty in contingent valuation: the case of wetland conservation in Belarus

Chair: Jürgen Meyerhoff - Choice inconsistencies and learning effects

Marek Giergiczny: Testing the consistency (or lack thereof) between choices in best-worst surveys

Sergio Colombo, Klaus Glenk, Beatriz Rocamora: Using price cutoffs to correct choice inconsistencies

Mikołaj Czajkowski: The Value of Familiarity: Effects of Experience and Knowledge on Willingness to Pay for a Public Good

Mara Thiene: Closing session

Chair: Jürgen Meyerhoff - Preference heterogeneity and willingness to pay issues

Marco Boeri: The impacts on welfare analysis of assuming variance and taste homogeneity when scale is actually heterogeneous: a Monte Carlo experiment.

Mikołaj Czajkowski, Richard Carson: A New Baseline Model for Simulating Willingness to Pay from Discrete Choice Models (with Richard Carson)

Sergio Colombo, Klaus Glenk: Which is the impact on WTP of allowing respondents to review their previous choice if they violate individually stated price cutoffs?

Sonia Akter, Michael Ward, Tom Kompas: 'Resilience of choice experiment estimates to natural disasters: A natural experiment

Chair: Petr Mariel - Attribute attendance

Mara Thiene, Riccardo Scarpa, Jordan Louviere: Exploring the effects of experimental designs on preferences in energy economics: the case of greenhouse gas reduction and solar panels

Riccardo Scarpa: Attribute non-attendance using Monte Carlo results

Stefan M. Flügel: Self-selection to attribute values as an explanation for unexpected Box-Cox-Parameters in mode choice models

Stephane Hess: Stop attending to non-attendance

Chair: Mara Thiene - Hybrid choice models

Jette Bredahl Jacobsen: Incorporating Provision Uncertainty in Choice Experiment Valuation Studies by the use of a hybrid model

Stephane Hess, Amanda Stathopoulos: Linking response quality to survey engagement: a combined random scale and latent variable approach

Petr Mariel, Jürgen Meyerhoff: Latent variable choice model for landscape externalities of wind power generation

David Hoyos, Petr Mariel, Stephane Hess: Incorporating latent variables in discrete choice models: issues and challenges

Chair: David Hoyos - Designing choice experiments

Malte Oehlmann, Priska Weller, Jürgen Meyerhoff: The influence of design dimensions on stated choices – an example from environmental valuation using a design-of-designs approach

Søren Bøye Olsen: Discuss concerns how / if we can incentivize CE surveys

Xianwen Chena, Frode Alfnesa, Kyrre Rickertsena: Effect of negative environmental information to French consumers’ value for eco-labeled and non-labeled fish

Jürgen Meyerhoff, Klaus Glenk: Learning how to choose – effects of instruction choice sets in discrete choice experiments

Jürgen Meyerhoff: What next? Who’s next?

Chair: Petr Mariel (starting with a short Welcome)

Campbell, D., Jacobsen, J.B., Thorsen, B.J., Vedel, S.E.: Heterogeneity in the value of increased recreational access

Cati Torres, Sergio Colombo, and Nick Hanley: Incorrectly accounting for taste heterogeneity in choice experiments: Does it really matter?

Ulf Liebe: The Measurement of Attitudes: Theoretical Background, Methodological Challenges and Applications in Choice Experiments

David Hoyos, P.Mariel, S. Hess: Attitudinal scales and how to include them in DCE

Chair: David Hoyos

Stephane Hess: Can scale be separated in random coefficient models?

Ståle Navrud: What price for Happy Salmon?

Klaus Glenk, Jacqueline Potts, Julia Martin-Ortega: The use of Bayesian methods in benefits ‘transfer’

Marco Boeri & Mara Thiene: Outdoor recreations: Is the choice among Alpine sites a matter of Utility maximization, Regret minimization or both?

Chair: Mara Thiene

Sergio Colombo, Klaus Glenk: Dealing with attribute processing strategies in choice experiments

Sergio Colombo , Nick Hanley and Mike Christi: Attribute no attendance at choice sequence level. Do people do what they say?

Olsen, S. B.: Have you ignored any attributes 11:00-11:30 Coffee break

Chair: Jürgen Meyerhoff

Jürgen Meyerhoff: First results concerning a potential starting point bias and some questions with respect to an updated Bayesian experimental design

Petr Mariel, P. Gálvez, D. Hoyos: Results of simulation experiment on the Fosgerau and Bierlaire's test

Rungie, C., Scarpa, R., Thiene, M.: The influence of individuals in forming collective household preferences for water quality

Wrap-up session

What’s next: To continue or not to continue?

Sandwiches + coffee