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When my eye came a cropper on the word ornariness in a headline in the (Toronto) Globe and Mail , I was pretty sure it was either a misspelling or an editor's plain orneriness.
The adjustment is made by applying the elasticity of WTP with respect to severity reported in the Krupnick and Cropper (1992) study.
It's becoming clear from the coverage that the U.S. negotiating strategy--to get the Albanians on board and then threaten the Serbs with airstrikes--has come a cropper because U.S. and NATO diplomats have been, in the NYT 's words, "flabbergasted" by the Albanians, especially by the Albanian guerrillas in the delegation.
Cropper.
, 1991; Krupnick and Cropper, 1992).