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Alistair Munro
Researcher at National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
Publications - 102
Citations - 3654
Alistair Munro is an academic researcher from National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies. The author has contributed to research in topics: Contingent valuation & Public good. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 96 publications receiving 3407 citations. Previous affiliations of Alistair Munro include University of East Anglia & University of Western Australia.
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The Economics of the Public Sector
Sara Connolly,Alistair Munro +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, economic rationales for the state and public goods are discussed, as well as public choice, public choice and government failure in the context of the European Union and the United States.
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A Test of the Theory of Reference-Dependent Preferences
TL;DR: In this article, eight alternative methods of eliciting preferences between money and a consumption good are identified: two of these are standard willingness-to-accept and willingness to pay measures, and the others differ with respect to the reference point used and the dimension in which responses are expressed.
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On the theory of reference-dependent preferences
Alistair Munro,Robert Sugden +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a reference-dependent preference theory is proposed in which preferences are conditional on reference points and reference points are treated as subject to change during the course of trade, and the implications of endogeneity of reference points for behaviour in markets are investigated.
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Does part-whole bias exist? An experimental investigation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on an experiment into part-whole bias in restaurant meal valuations, and show that the sum of the valuations of the parts consistently exceeded that of the whole in a context where traditional explanations would not have predicted it.
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Testing competing models of loss aversion: an adversarial collaboration
TL;DR: In this article, an experiment was conducted to investigate whether, when individuals consider giving up money in exchange for goods, they construe money outlays as losses or as foregone gains.