PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Manuel Frondel
AU  - Stephan Sommer
AU  - Lukas Tomberg
TI  - WTA-WTP Disparity: The Role of Perceived Realism of the Valuation Setting
AID  - 10.3368/wple.97.1.030419-0033R1
DP  - 2021 Feb 01
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 196--206
VI  - 97
IP  - 1
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/97/1/196.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/97/1/196.full
SO  - Land Econ2021 Feb 01; 97
AB  - Based on a survey of more than 5,000 German households and a single-binary-choice experiment in which we randomly split the respondents into two groups, this article explores both households’ willingness to pay (WTP) for power supply security and their willingness to accept (WTA) compensation for a reduced security level. In accordance with numerous empirical studies, we find that the mean WTA value substantially exceeds the mean WTP value in our empirical example by a factor of 3.56. Yet, the WTA-WTP ratio decreases to 2.35 if respondents believe that the hypothetical valuation setting is likely to become true.