ECON 101: Benefit-Cost Analysis

Here are our previous efforts at explaining benefit-cost analysis organized into a sort of a primitive, poorly written, ill-conceived, primer.

Benefit-cost analysis

• Measuring Benefits
  • Theory
  • Methods
    • Travel Cost
    • Hedonic
    • Averting Behavior
    • Contingent Valuation
• Measuring Costs
  • Theory
  • Methods
• Comparing Benefits and Costs
  • Decision Rules
  • Discount Rate
  • Sensitivity Analysis
• An example: The acid rain program

References

• Arrow, et al., Is There a Role for Benefit-Cost Analysis in Environmental, Health and Safety Regulation, 1996 [PDF]

Here are our previous efforts at explaining benefit-cost analysis organized into a sort of a primitive, poorly written, ill-conceived, primer.

Benefit-cost analysis

• Measuring Benefits
  • Theory
  • Methods
    • Travel Cost
    • Hedonic
    • Averting Behavior
    • Contingent Valuation
• Measuring Costs
  • Theory
  • Methods
• Comparing Benefits and Costs
  • Decision Rules
  • Discount Rate
  • Sensitivity Analysis
• An example: The acid rain program