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Cost-Benefit Analysis: Concepts and Practice
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Cost-benefit analysis as discussed by the authors provides accessible, comprehensive, authoritative, and practical treatments of the protocols for assessing the relative efficiency of public policies, including time discounting, dealing with contingent uncertainty using expected surpluses and option prices, taking account of parameter uncertainties using Monte Carlo simulation and other types of sensitivity analyses, revealed preference approaches, stated preference methods, and other related methods.Abstract:
Cost-Benefit Analysis provides accessible, comprehensive, authoritative, and practical treatments of the protocols for assessing the relative efficiency of public policies. Its review of essential concepts from microeconomics, and its sophisticated treatment of important topics with minimal use of mathematics helps students from a variety of backgrounds build solid conceptual foundations. It provides thorough treatments of time discounting, dealing with contingent uncertainty using expected surpluses and option prices, taking account of parameter uncertainties using Monte Carlo simulation and other types of sensitivity analyses, revealed preference approaches, stated preference methods including contingent valuation, and other related methods. Updated to cover contemporary research, this edition is considerably reorganized to aid in student and practitioner understanding, and includes eight new cases to demonstrate the actual practice of cost-benefit analysis. Widely cited, it is recognized as an authoritative source on cost-benefit analysis. Illustrations, exhibits, chapter exercises, and case studies help students master concepts and develop craft skills.read more
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Cost–benefit analysis – evaluation model of cloud computing deployment for use in companies
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Benefit–cost analysis of a randomized evaluation of Communities That Care: monetizing intervention effects on the initiation of delinquency and substance use through grade 12
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The Cost of Visual Impairment: Purposes, Perspectives, and Guidance
Kevin D. Frick,Steven M. Kymes,Paul P. Lee,David B. Matchar,M Lynne Pezzullo,David B. Rein,Hugh R. Taylor +6 more
TL;DR: A result of the workshop is the publication of the results of the consensus-building process that was begun at the meeting and continued with correspondence and revisions of the statements regarding consensus after the meeting.
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Consumers' Attitudes on Services of General Interest in the EU: Accessibility, Price and Quality 2000-2004
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The Leisure Bias in Cost-benefit Analyses of Employment and Training Programs.
TL;DR: This paper developed a method for adjusting for this bias and illustrates how the method can be used to reassess findings from earlier E&T cost-benefit analyses, showing that the bias from ignoring lost leisure is likely to be sizable unless the E&Ts program that is subject to costbenefit analysis increases earnings mainly by raising wage rates or participant reservation wages are near zero.