Do EPA Administrators Recommend Environmental Policies That Citizens Want?
通过对比瑞典环保局管理者与公民在环境质量改善上的选择实验，发现管理者对多数环境属性的支付意愿高于公民，且偏好排序不同。
We investigate whether Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator recommendations regarding improvements in environmental quality differ from citizen preferences. This is done by conducting identical choice experiments on both citizens and administrators at the EPA. The administrators were asked to choose the alternatives they would recommend as a policy, while the citizens were asked to act as private persons. We find that the rankings of attributes differ between the two groups and that the willingness to pay (WTP) obtained from the choices made by the administrators is higher for five out of the seven attributes, and in some cases the difference between the WTPs is substantial. <i></i>