Cost-benefit analysis : concepts and practice

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Cases
1. Introduction to Cost–Benefit Analysis
2. Conceptual Foundations of Cost–Benefit Analysis
3. Microeconomic Foundations of Cost–Benefit Analysis
	Appendix 3A. Consumer Surplus and Willingness to Pay
4. Valuing Impacts from Observed Behavior: Direct Estimation of Demand Schedules
	Appendix 4A. Introduction to Multiple Regression Analysis
5. Valuing Impacts in Output Markets
6. Valuing Impacts in Input Markets
7. Valuing Impacts in Secondary Markets
8. Predicting and Monetizing Impacts
9. Discounting Future Impacts and Handling Inflation
	Appendix 9A. Formulas for Calculating the Present Value of Annuities and Perpetuities
10. The Social Discount Rate
11. Dealing with Uncertainty: Expected Values, Sensitivity Analysis, and the Value of Information
	Appendix 11A. Monte Carlo Sensitivity Analysis using Commonly Available Software
12. Risk, Option Price, and Option Value
	Appendix 12A. Signing Option Value
13. Existence Value
	Appendix 13A. Expenditure Functions and the Partitioning of Benefits
14. Valuing Impacts from Observed Behavior: Experiments and Quasi- Experiments
15. Valuing Impacts from Observed Behavior: Indirect Market Methods
16. Contingent Valuation: Using Surveys to Elicit Information about Costs and Benefits
17. Shadow Prices from Secondary Sources
18. Cost–Effectiveness Analysis and Cost–Utility Analysis
19. Distributionally Weighted CBA
20. How Accurate Is CBA?
Name Index
Subject Index