In this paper we derive a set of conditions that is both necessary and sufficient for the consistency of QALY based decision making with life-cycle preferences over consumption and health status. Cost benefit analysis is always consistent with life-cycle preferences over consumption and health...

David Courard-Hauri is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. His e-mail address is david.courard-hauri@drake.edu

Mortality statistics systems provide basic information on the levels and causes of mortality in populations. Only a third of the world's countries have complete civil registration systems that yield adequate cause-specific mortality data for health policy-making and monitoring. This paper...

The growing world economy calls for saving natural resources withsustainable development framework. This paper intends to look at theenvironment-energy interface (impacts on the environment stemming formthe energy sector) and to propose measures for reducing this impactwithout trying to impede...

El artículo propone un marco para evaluar el impacto de los colchones de capital a nivel de todo el sistema y a nivel bancario. La evaluación se basa en un modelo FAVAR (Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregression) que relaciona los ajustes bancarios individuales con la dinámica macroeconómica....

By defining some behaviors as crimes, law defines incentives and protects society from direct and indirect, tangible and intangible negative impacts. Whatever the severity of the prescribed penalties for those that prevaricate, society and its institutions need to act at the level of law...

This paper draws and expands from a recent ex-post evaluation carried out for the European Commission aimed at assessing the long term effects produced by a sample of ten major infrastructures in the Transport and Environment sectors and interpreting the key determinants of the observed...

On the basis of market demand survey of chestnut, this article carries out cost-benefit analysis of the chestnut production in Xingtai County, to understand the profitability and payback period of local chestnut production. It points out that chestnut production has a high rate of return on...

Reductions in transport costs resulting from infrastructure improvements generate benefits that can be measured as surplus changes either at an economy-wide scale (social welfare changes) or, as is common practice in cost-benefit analysis (CBA), at a transport market level as transport users’...

Cost-benefit analysis on an animal health program involves considerable data collection and analysis. The analysis step involves expressing data in the form of cash flows, and then performing discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis. The output of DCF analysis consists of one of more of the various...