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Cost-benefit analysis : concepts and practice / Anthony E. Boardman ... [et al.]. - 3rd ed. - Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2006. - xv, 560 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical reference and index.

Overview --
Introduction to cost-benefit analysis --
Conceptual foundations of cost-benefit analysis --
Fundamentals of CBA --
Basic microeconomic foundations of cost-benefit analysis --
Valuing benefits and costs in primary markets --
Valuing benefits and costs in secondary markets --
Discounting benefits and costs in future time periods --
Dealing with uncertainty: expected values, sensitivity analysis, and the value of information --
Option price and option value --
Existence value --
The social discount rate --
Valuation of impacts --
Valuing impacts for observed behavior: demonstrations --
Valuing impacts from observed behavior: direct estimation of demand curves --
Valuing impacts from observed behavior: indirect market methods --
Contingent valuation: using surveys to elicit information about costs and benefits --
Shadow prices from secondary sources --
Shadow prices: applications to developing countries --
Related methods and accuracy --
Cost-effectiveness analysis --
Distributionally weighted cost-benefit analysis --
How accurate is CBA?

ISBN: 0131435833 (casebound : alk. paper)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Cost effectiveness.

LC Class. No.: HD47.4 / .C669