Cost-benefit analysis /
Per-Olov Johansson and Bengt Kriström.
- 1 online resource (iv, 94 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Elements in public economics 2516-2276 Cambridge elements .
- Cambridge elements. .
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This Element on cost-benefit analysis provides a summary of recent theoretical and empirical developments and summarizes state-of-the-art stated-preference and revealed-preference valuation methods. The Element discusses how to assess small (or marginal) as well as large (or non-marginal) projects that have a significant impact on prices and/or other economic variables. It also discusses distortions like taxes, market power, and sticky prices. In addition, risk/uncertainty is considered. A novel feature is the elaboration on flexible evaluation rules for reasonably small projects. Conventional point-estimates of projects should be used with care, because they typically give biased results.