Cost-Benefit Analysis
Concepts and Practice
4th Edition
Published on 14. December 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
556 pages
978-1-108-44828-4 (ISBN)
Description
The fourth edition of Cost-Benefit Analysis is an authoritative, market-leading textbook that provides a practical introduction to cost-benefit analysis through problem solving. The text uses a consistent application of a nine-step framework for interpreting a cost-benefit analysis. This edition has been fully revised, updated and re-organized to provide the material more effectively. It presents application over abstract theory and clear discussion over mathematics to appeal to a larger, more diverse audience.
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Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
1036 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-44828-4 (9781108448284)
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Anthony E. Boardman | David H. Greenberg | Aidan R. Vining
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Concepts and Practice
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Persons
Anthony E. Boardman is the Van Dusen Professor of Business Administration at the University of British Columbia. David H. Greenberg is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Aidan R. Vining is Professor of Business and Government Relations at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia. David L. Weimer is the Edwin E. Witte Professor of Political Economy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Content
Preface. Part I. Overview: 1. Introduction to cost-benefit analysis; 2. Conceptual foundations of cost-benefit analysis; Part II. Fundamentals of CBA: 3. Microeconomic foundations of cost-benefit analysis; 4. Valuing benefits and costs in primary markets; 5. Valuing benefits and costs in secondary markets; 6. Discounting benefits and costs in future time periods; 7. Dealing with uncertainty: expected values, sensitivity analysis, and the value of information; 8. Option price and option value; 9. Existence value; 10. The social discount rate 1; 11. Predicting and monetizing impacts; Part III. Valuation of Impacts: 12. Valuing impacts from observed behavior: experiments and quasi-experiments; 13. Valuing impacts from observed behavior: direct estimation of demand curves; 14. Valuing impacts from observed behavior: indirect market methods; 15. Contingent valuation: using surveys to elicit information about costs and benefits; 16. Shadow prices from secondary sources; 17. Shadow prices: applications to developing countries 1; Part IV. Related Methods: 18. Cost-effective analysis; 19. Distributionally weighted cost-benefit analysis; 20. How accurate is CBA?; Name index; Subject index.