Basic Cost Benefit Analysis for Assessing Local Public Projects
Published on 25. November 2013
138 pages
978-1-60649-637-4 (ISBN)
Description
CBA is an attempt to fully account for all costs associated with a new proposal along with a detailed calculation of specific private and public benefits. Properly employed, CBA is simply a method for assessing a proposal prior to a collective decision by calculating net benefits relative to an alternative project or the default option of doing nothing.
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Barry Keating | Maryann O. Keating
Basic Cost Benefit Analysis for Assessing Public Projects
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12/2013
Business Expert Press
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Persons
Barry P. Keating, PhD is Professor of Economics and
Finance at the University of Notre Dame. He is a Heritage
Foundation Fellow, a Heartland Institute Fellow,
and an advisor of both the Indiana Policy Review Group
and the Institute of Business Forecasting. He is the coauthor
of many successful books including Regression
Analysis, Business Expert Press, 2012.
Content
Chapter 1 An Introduction to Cost Benefit Analysis .....................................................................1
Chapter 2 Cost Benefit Analysis and Individual Preferences ........................................................15
Chapter 3 Time Preference and the Discount Rate .......................................................................29
Chapter 4 Measuring Costs and Benefits .....................................................................................39
Chapter 5 Shadow Pricing ...........................................................................................................59
Chapter 6 Potential Pitfalls in Cost Benefit Analysis ....................................................................67
Chapter 7 Introducing Cost Benefit Analysis to
the Non-Specialist ......................................................................................................................75
Chapter 8 Cost Benefit Analysis of Proposed New Regulations ....................................................83
Chapter 9 Case Study: Contracting Versus a Municipal
Animal Control Shelter ...............................................................................................................93
Chapter 10 Case Study: Cost Benefit Analysis for a Forty
Acre Industrial Park Intended to Spawn Economic
Development and Jobs ..............................................................................................................101
Chapter 11 Case Study: Establishing a Recreational Program
for the Disabled ........................................................................................................................109
Appendix ............................................................................................115
Notes .................................................................................................119
References ...........................................................................................121
Index .................................................................................................125
