Price : US$ 79.00; Inv.# Supplier : Amazon.Com, Seattle, WA; Recd 24/08/98; Contents : 1. Introduction to cost-benetif analysis; 2. Conceptual foundations of cost-benefit analysis; 3. Valuing benefits and costs when deman and supply are known; 4. Benefits and costs in different time periods : the mechanics of discounting; 5. The social discount rate; 6. Dealing with uncertainty : expected value and sensitivity analysis; 7. Option price, option value, and quasi-option value; 8. Existence value; 9. Estimating impacts from demonstrations; 10. Estimating and valuing impacts from observed behavior; 11. Contingent valuation : using surveys to elicit information about costs and benefits; 12. Shadow prices from secondary sources; 13. Cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-utility analysis; 14. Distributionally weighted cost-benetif analysis; 15. How accurate is CBA?
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-472) and indexes.
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Introduction to cost-benefit analysis Conceptual foundations of cost-benefit analysis Valuing benefits and costs when demand and supply curves are known Benefits and costs in different time periods: the mechanics of discounting The social discount rate Dealing with uncertainty: expected value and sensitivity analysis Option price, option value, and quasi-option value Existence value Estimating impacts from demonstrations Estimating and valuing impacts from observed behavior Contingent valuation: using surveys to elicit information about costs and benefits Shadow prices from seondary sources Cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-utility analysis Distributionally weighted cost-beneift analysis How accurate is CBA?