Cost-benefit analysis : concepts and practice

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Cost-benefit analysis : concepts and practice

Boardman ... [et al.]

(Pearson new international edition)

Pearson Education, c2014

4th ed., new international ed

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Pearson custom library

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Description

For undergraduate courses in cost-benefit analysis. A practical introduction to cost-benefit analysis through problem solving. This authoritative, market-leading text is known for its consistent application of a nine-step framework for conducting or interpreting a cost-benefit analysis. This edition includes a number of chapters that have been revised and reorganized to make the material clearer and more accessible.

Table of Contents

Part I: Overview Chapter 1. Introduction to Cost-Benefit Analysis Chapter 2. Conceptual Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis Part II: Fundamentals of CBA Chapter 3. Economics Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis Chapter 4. Valuing Benefits and Costs in Primary Markets Chapter 5. Valuing Benefits and Costs in Secondary Markets Chapter 6. Discounting Benefits and Costs in Future Time Periods Chapter 7. Dealing with Uncertainty: Expected Values, Sensitivity Analysis, and the Value of Information Chapter 8. Option Price and Option Value Chapter 9. Existence Value Chapter 10. The Social Discount Rate Part III: Valuation of Impacts Chapter 11. Predicting and Monetizing Impacts Chapter 12. Valuing Impacts From Observed Behavior: Experiments and Quasi-Experiments Chapter 13. Valuing Impacts from Observed Behavior: Direct Estimation of Demand Curves Chapter 14. Valuing Impacts from Observed Behavior: Indirect Market Methods Chapter 15. Shadow Prices from Secondary Sources Chapter 16. Shadow Prices: Applications to Developing Countries Part IV: Related Methods Chapter 17. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Chapter 18. Distributionally Weighted Cost-Benefit Analysis

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  • NCID
    BB14471979
  • ISBN
    • 9781292021911
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Harlow
  • Pages/Volumes
    ii, 500 p.
  • Size
    28 cm
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