Stated Preference Methods are useful tools aimed at assessing the social welfare impacts of public and private policies and play a key role in applied economic research. The workshop develops step by step stated preference models that are used for the economic assessment of policy initiatives.
The course will follow model-based peer-reviewed publications in international journals to cover contemporary policy issues in the áreas of sustainability, environmental, health and tourism economics. For the computer implementation of stated preference methods the course builds on the programming language R. The fundamental strength of R lies in that: i) it is a free software; ii) it is constantly improved by a large list of researchers in statistics, econometrics and applied fields; iii) it is an easy frme with which mathematically-defined models can be formulated and solved.
Material and teaching is in English. Registered participants will receive teaching material prior to the start of the workshop such that they can prepare in advance. Teaching will combine lectures on theoretical underpinnings with worked examples on model implementation based on peer-reviewed publications.
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This is a workshop put on by Bengt Kristrom and colleagues. Held in Las Palmas, November 16-20.
I will be in Columbus, Ohio at that time.
Las Palmas sounds better.
