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Recent Working Papers. (downloadable via RePEc)

Autonomy or Efficiency. An experiment on household decisions in two regions of India," GRIPS Discussion Papers, 10-33, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.

Bereket Kebede & Marcela Tarazona & Alistair Munro & Arjan Verschoor, 2011. "Intra-household efficiency; An experimental study from Ethiopia," CSAE Working Paper Series, 2011-01, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.

Alistair Munro & Bereket Kebede & Marcela Tarazona-Gomez & Arjan Verschoor, 2010. "The lion's share. An experimental analysis of polygamy in Northern Nigeria," GRIPS Discussion Papers 10-27, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.

Munro, Alistair & Popov, Danail, 2009. "A Portmanteau Experiment on The Relevance of Individual Decision Anomalies for Households," DP09/10, Department of Economics Discussion Papers, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Munro, Alistair & Valente, Marieta, 2009. "Green goods: are they good or bad news for the environment? Evidence from a laboratory experiment on impure public goods," MPRA Paper 13024, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 14 Jan 2009.

Munro, Alistair & Bateman, Ian J. & McNally, Tara, 2008. "The family under the microscope: an experiment testing economic models of household choice," MPRA Paper 8974, University Library of Munich, Germany.

Munro, Alistair & Ferreira De Sousa, Yannick, 2008. "Truck, barter and exchange versus the endowment effect: virtual field experiments in an online game environment," MPRA Paper 8977, University Library of Munich, Germany.

Munro, Alistair & McNally, Tara & Popov, Danail, 2008. "Taking it in turn: an experimental test of theories of the household," MPRA Paper 8976, University Library of Munich, Germany.

Munro, Alistair, 2007. "When is some number really better than no number? On the optimal choice between non-market valuation methods," MPRA Paper 8978, University Library of Munich, Germany.

Notes for a lecture on the economics of nuclear accidents and slides

Published Work and Older Working Papers

2009 Bounded Rationality and Public Policy: A Perspective from Behavioural Economics , Springer.,

2009 What we do and don't understand about the household and environmental economics: Introduction to the Special Issue. Environmental and Resource Economics May

2009 (with I. J. Bateman) Household versus individual valuation: what's the difference? (Link is to earlier draft). Environmental and Resource Economics 43, 1 119-135 May doi:10.1007/s10640-009-9268-6

2008 (with I. J. Bateman and G. L. Poe) Asymmetric Dominance Effects in Choice Experiments and Contingent Valuation. Land Economics. February. 84, 1, 115-127.

2008 The Spatial Impact of Genetically Modified Crops. Ecological Economics 67, 658-676. doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.01.030

2007 (with Ivor James, Tim Hoffman, Patrick O'Farrell, Russel Smart), The Economic Value of Flower Tourism at the Namaqua National Park, South Africa, South African Journal of Economics and Management Sciences, 10, 4, 442-456.

2006 (with I. Bateman, B. Rhodes, C. Starmer and R. Sugden) Anchoring and yea-saying with private goods: an experiment. In J.A. List (ed)., Using Experimental Methods in Environmental and Resource Economics (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar).

2005 (with Ian Bateman, Daniel Kahneman, Alistair Munro, Chris Starmer, Robert Sugden) Is there loss aversion in buying? An adversarial collaboration Journal of Public Economics 89: 1561-1580.

2005 (with I. Bateman) An experiment on risky choice amongst households. Economic Journal, March 115(502) C176-190.

2005 Household willingness to pay equals individual willingness to pay if and only if the household income pools. Economics Letters

2004 (with Robin Cubitt and Chris Starmer) Preference reversal: an experimental investigation of economic and psychological hypotheses, Economic Journal, 114, (497), 709-726

2003 On the theory of reference-dependent preferences", (with Bob Sugden), Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation

2003 (with I. Bateman) Testing Economic Models of the Household: An Experiment.

2002 (with I. Bateman) Non-cooperative decision-making and measures of household surplus. Paper given at 2nd World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economics, Monterey, 2002.

2003 Monopolisation and The Regulation of Genetically Modified Crops. Environment and Development Economics

2002 The Regulation of Genetically Modified Crops: An Economic Model, in Environmental Policy, Agriculture and Biotechnology Tim Swanson (ed.), Kluwer Academic Press.

2001 (with I. Bateman, I. Langford, C.Starmer and R.Sugden), "Estimating Four Hicksian Welfare Measures for a Public Good: A Contingent Valuation Investigation", Land Economics

1999 (with Jim Shortle, Nick Hanley and Robin Faichney) Least Cost allocations for probablisitic water quality targets. In Steve Sorrell and Jim Skea (eds.) Pollution for Sale: emissions trading and joint implementation, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar

1999 (with Nick Hanley) Information, Uncertainty and Contingent Valuation, Ch. 8 in Bateman, I. and Willis, K. (eds.) Valuing Environmental Preferences: Theory and Practice of the Contingent Valuation Method in the US, EC and Developing Countries, OUP.

1999 (with Sara Connolly) Economics of the Public Sector, Prentice Hall. London.

1998 (with R. Faichney, N. Hanley, J. Shortle) Market Mechanisms for Pollution Control In the Forth Estuary, Journal of Environmental Management. 52, 211-225.

1997 Economics and Biological Evolution, Environmental and Resource Economics Volume 9, no.4, 429-449.

1997 (with I. Bateman, B. Rhodes, C. Starmer, and R. Sugden) Does Part-Whole Bias Exist? An Experimental Investigation. Economic Journal , March, 322-332.

1997 (with I. Bateman, B. Rhodes, C. Starmer, and R. Sugden) A Test of the Theory of Reference-Dependent Preferences, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol.112, 2, 479-505.

reprinted as Chapter Ten, pp 180-201 in D. Kahneman and A. Tversky (eds) Choices, Values, and Frames. Cambridge UP.

1994 (with Nick Hanley) Valuing Habitat Protection: Two Case Studies in Contingent Valuation, Ch. 12 in Hanley, N. and Spash, C.(eds.) Cost Benefit Analysis and the Environment, Edward Elgar.

1992 In-Kind Distribution, Uncertainty and Merit Wants: A Simple Model, Public Finance Quarterly, vol 20(2) April 175-194.

1992 Self-selection and Optimal In-kind Transfers, Economic Journal, vol 102 no. 414 September 1184-1196.

1991 The Optimal Public Provision of Private Goods, Journal of Public Economics 44(2) 239-261.

1991 Welfare Effects of Multiple Rationing, Bulletin of Economic Research, 43(4) 355-60.

1989 In-Kind Transfers, Cash Grants and Labour Supply, European Economic Review, 33, 1597-1604.

1988 The Measurement of Racial and Other Forms of Discrimination ,University of Stirling, Discussion Papers in Economics, Finance and Investment, No. 148, September (Scanned copy)..

Consulting
Some reports I've had a hand in can be found here:

2002 With PIRA, for the UK government's DTI. DTI Competitive Analysis of the UK Publishing Media Sector

2001 With PIRA for the EU. Commercial exploitation of Europe's public sector information

2006 with OXERA for the UK government's DEFRA, Policies for Energy Efficiency in the UK Household Sector.

2008 With Element Energy for the UK government's BERR. The Growth potential for Microgeneration in England, Wales and Scotland

Email: alistair-munro at grips.ac.jp