Willingness to Pay

9 important questions on Willingness to Pay

What is "willing to pay"?

Maximum amount of money consumers are willing to pay for additional attributes of a product.


- interested in WTP, increase food safety makes products more expensive

What are different methods to assess WTP?

  • Real market experiment
  • Contingent valuation, just ask
  • Experimental auctions
  • Choice experiments

What are characteristics of Real market experiment for WTP?

  • Go to real market
  • But consumer may remember previous prices or attributes and act accordingly
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What are characteristics of contingent valuation for WTP?

"Just ask"
  • Hypothetical product (Describe well)
  • For environmental price, price of nature
  • Critical aspects
    • Framing - extremely important
    • Timing
    • Point of reference
    • Knowledge about respondent
    • Interpretation and extrapolation

What are the elements of WTP framing?

  • Product
  • Open-endend or closed
  • WTP or WTB
  • Percentage or absolute value
  • Extra price or total price
  • Make a plausible and understandable claim
  • Try to trigger budget limitations

WTP interpretation for Researcher?

  • Response rate
  • Representativeness of sample -> generalisation
  • Segmentation

What is general criticism of WTP?

  • Interpretation not easy (framing, segmentation)
  • Overestimation (citizen options, wishful thinking)
  • Not realistic , reflecting real behaviour

What are characteristics of Experimental actions for WTP?

  • Improved way to find WTP
  • Sometimes us real money to be spend by respondents
  • Other aspects more or lees equal to contingent valuation

What the conclusion of WTP?

  • WTP is a useful method, price a product before and after food crises
  • Value depends on
    • Framing
    • Timing
    • Reference price & product
    • Interpretability & representativness

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