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Quantifying the Non-Use Value of Biodiversity in Cost–Benefit Analysis: The Dutch Biodiversity Points

Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2021
Biodiversity points are a quantitative measure for biodiversity. For over a decade, biodiversity points are being applied in the Netherlands for measuring the impact of roads, enclosure dams, and other water management projects on the non-use value of ...
F. Bos, A. Ruijs
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Project Finance and Cost–Benefit Analysis

, 2009
This Handbook provides an authoritative overview of current research in the field of cost–benefit analysis and is designed as a starting point for those interested in undertaking advanced research.
P. Musgrave
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Cost–Benefit Analysis Applied to Labour Market Programmes

, 2009
This Handbook provides an authoritative overview of current research in the field of cost–benefit analysis and is designed as a starting point for those interested in undertaking advanced research.
Michele Campolieti, M. Gunderson
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Economic Analysis of the Policy for Accreditation of Dairy Farms Free of Bovine Brucellosis and Tuberculosis: Challenges for Small and Large Producers in Brazil

, 2018
One of the cornerstones of the National Program for Control and Eradication of Bovine Brucellosis and Tuberculosis in Brazil is the voluntary accreditation of free herds.
B. M. Leite, J. Lôbo, J. Ruas, F. Ferreira, Cibele Geeverghese, M. L. Freitas, V. Gonçalves   +6 more
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Assessing the Olympic Games: The Economic Impact and Beyond

, 2018
This study reviews the literature on the evaluation of the Olympic Games, within the broader framework of their significance as cultural assets and opportunities for endogenous growth and sustainable development of the host city.
P. Scandizzo, Maria Rita Pierleoni
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Irreversible Investments: A Cost–Benefit Perspective

, 2009
This Handbook provides an authoritative overview of current research in the field of cost–benefit analysis and is designed as a starting point for those interested in undertaking advanced research.
Rati Ram, R. Goel
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Choosing the Social Discount Rate for Australia

, 2018
This article argues that in cost–benefit analysis government should adopt the opportunity cost of capital as represented by the alternative project rate of return as the social discount rate rather than the private or social time discount rate or a ...
P. Abelson, Tim Dalton
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A Partial Review of Seven Official Guidelines for Cost-Benefit Analysis

Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2020
This paper reviews seven contemporary official guidelines to cost-benefit analysis (CBA) with respect to eight major cost-benefit issues drawing on the latest edition of the major CBA textbook for guidance, although not complete authority. The guidelines
P. Abelson
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The taming of institutions in economics: the rise and methodology of the ‘ new new institutionalism’

, 2009
We examine the origin and methodology of a ‘New New Institutional Economics’ (NNIE) – an emerging research agenda distinguished by its attempt to account for the role of institutions in complex socio-economic change by formally modeling ...
P. Spiegler, W. Milberg
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Coastal bathing water health risks: developing means of assessing the adequacy of proposals to amend the 1976 EC directive

, 2000
Everyone likes clean seawater to bathe in and standards for acceptable seawater quality are set by the European Commission (CEC, 1976). In 1994, proposals to revise these standards were announced.
S. Georgiou, I. Bateman, I. Langford, Rosemary J. Day   +3 more
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