TY - BOOK AU - Johansson,Per-Olov AU - Kriström,Bengt TI - Cost-benefit analysis T2 - Elements in public economics SN - 9781108660624 (ebook) AV - HD47.4 .J64 2018 U1 - 658.1554 23 PY - 2018/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Cost effectiveness N1 - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 May 2018) N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108660624 ER -