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Wiktor L. Adamowicz

Wiktor L. Adamowicz

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Economics and Finance
Canada
2024

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
60
Citations
22196
World Ranking
806
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Canada Leader Award
  • 2007 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Wiktor L. Adamowicz is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a focus on Economic and Environmental Valuation, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy, Health Systems economic evaluations, and Transportation Planning and Optimization.

The scientist has published broadly on topics including:

  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
  • Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding
  • Organic Food and Agriculture

Main fields of study for Adamowicz include Economics and Econometrics, along with various subfields such as Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, General Decision Sciences, Transportation, and Global and Planetary Change.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Land Economics
  • Patient
  • Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
  • Ecosystem Services
  • American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Among the recent papers published by Adamowicz are:

  • A systematic literature review of non-market valuation of Indigenous peoples' values: Current knowledge, best-practice and framing questions for future research (2022, Ecosystem Services)
  • Using inferred valuation to quantify survey and social desirability bias in stated preference research (2021, American Journal of Agricultural Economics)
  • The economics of conservation debt: a natural capital approach to revealed valuation of ecological dynamics (2020, Ecological Applications)
  • Moving beyond the Contingent Valuation versus Choice Experiment Debate: Presentation Effects in Stated Preference (2020, Land Economics)
  • Techno-economic assessment for heating cattle feed water with low-temperature geothermal energy: A case study from central Alberta, Canada (2022, Renewable Energy)

Adamowicz has collaborated frequently with co-authors such as Patrick Lloyd-Smith, Lusi Xie, Alicia Entem, Eli P. Fenichel, and Richard T. Carson. The collaboration intensity varies, with the highest number of co-publications being nine with Patrick Lloyd-Smith.

In recognition of their contributions, Wiktor L. Adamowicz was named Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2007 under the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Combining Revealed and Stated Preference Methods for Valuing Environmental Amenities

    Wiktor Adamowicz;Jordan J. Louviere;Michael Williams

  • Stated Preference Approaches for Measuring Passive Use Values: Choice Experiments and Contingent Valuation

    Wiktor Adamowicz;Wiktor Adamowicz;Peter C. Boxall;Michael Williams;Jordan J. Louviere

  • Understanding heterogeneous preferences in random utility models: a latent class approach.

    Peter C. Boxall;Wiktor L. Adamowicz

  • Contemporary Guidance for Stated Preference Studies

    Robert J. Johnston;Kevin J. Boyle;Wiktor Adamowicz;Jeff Bennett

  • A comparison of stated preference methods for environmental valuation

    Peter C. Boxall;Wiktor L. Adamowicz;Joffre Swait;Michael Williams

  • Perceptions versus Objective Measures of Environmental Quality in Combined Revealed and Stated Preference Models of Environmental Valuation

    Wiktor Adamowicz;Joffre Swait;Peter Boxall;Jordan Louviere

  • The Influence of Task Complexity on Consumer Choice: A Latent Class Model of Decision Strategy Switching

    Joffre Swait;Wiktor Adamowicz

  • Introduction to Attribute-Based Stated Choice Methods

    Wiktor Adamowicz;Jordan Louviere;Joffre Swait

  • Attribute-Based Methods

    Thomas P. Holmes;Thomas P. Holmes;Wiktor L. Adamowicz;Wiktor L. Adamowicz

  • Socioeconomic Determinants of Health‐ and Food Safety‐Related Risk Perceptions

    Donna M. Dosman;Wiktor L. Adamowicz;Steve E. Hrudey

  • Choice Environment, Market Complexity, and Consumer Behavior: A Theoretical and Empirical Approach for Incorporating Decision Complexity into Models of Consumer Choice

    Joffre Swait;Wiktor L. Adamowicz

  • Trading off health, environmental and genetic modification attributes in food

    Wuyang Hu;Anne Hünnemeyer;Michele Veeman;Wiktor Adamowicz

  • What's it worth? An examination of historical trends and future directions in environmental valuation

    Wiktor L. Adamowicz

  • Biodiversity and nature-based tourism at forest reserves in Uganda

    Robin Naidoo;Wiktor L. Adamowicz

  • Complexity in choice experiments: choice of the status quo alternative and implications for welfare measurement*

    Peter C. Boxall;Wiktor L. Adamowicz;Amanda Moon

  • The economics of the environment and natural resources

    R. Quentin Grafton ...

  • Multiple-use management of forest recreation sites: a spatially explicit choice experiment

    Paula Horne;Peter C. Boxall;Wiktor L. Adamowicz

  • Functional Form and the Statistical Properties of Welfare Measures

    Wiktor L. Adamowicz;Jerald J. Fletcher;Theodore Graham-Tomasi

  • Effects of Economic Prosperity on Numbers of Threatened Species

    Robin Naidoo;Wiktor L. Adamowicz

  • Economic benefits of biodiversity exceed costs of conservation at an African rainforest reserve

    Robin Naidoo;Wiktor L. Adamowicz

  • Designing a payments for ecosystem services (PES) program to reduce deforestation in Tanzania: : An assessment of payment approaches

    David Kaczan;Brent M. Swallow;W.L. (Vic) Adamowicz

  • Stated preference approaches for measuring passive use values: choice experiments versus contingent valuation. Staff paper 95-03.

    W.L. Adamowicz;P.C. Boxall;M. Williams;J.J. Louviere

  • Stated Choice Methods: Relaxing the IID assumption – introducing variants of the MNL model

    Jordan J. Louviere;David A. Hensher;Joffre D. Swait;Wiktor Adamowicz

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter C. Boxall
Peter C. Boxall University of Alberta
Joffre Swait
Joffre Swait Erasmus University Rotterdam
Christian Messier
Christian Messier University of Quebec at Montreal
Jordan J. Louviere
Jordan J. Louviere University of South Australia
Wuyang Hu
Wuyang Hu The Ohio State University
R. Quentin Grafton
R. Quentin Grafton Australian National University
David A. Hensher
David A. Hensher University of Sydney
Alan Krupnick
Alan Krupnick Resources For The Future
John A. List
John A. List University of Chicago
Steven T. Yen
Steven T. Yen National Taiwan University

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