Cost-benefit analysis (CBA), as a distinctive tool for public investment projects evaluation laying in the portfolio of the governmental authorities, strives to replicate the market in establishing economic standards for the measurement of their success, while the government’s actions are in...

This essay argues for adopting a Christocentric vision, as opposed to the anthropocentric one, where man, with his reason and science, believes he can solve everything. But both A. Einstein and J.M. Keynes believed that the new issues (generated by the crisis) cannot be solved with the same...

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...

We analyze the effects of four randomized experiments involving intensive active labour market policy, conducted in Denmark in 2008. The interventions consisted of early and frequent meetings and activation programmes. The effects are remarkable; frequent meetings between newly unemployed workers...

This paper provides a comprehensive discussion of the market value of variable renewable energy (VRE). The inherent variability of wind speeds and solar radiation affects the price that VRE generators receive on the market (market value). During wind and sunny times the additional electricity...

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...

This paper analyses costs and benefits of planting trees on marginal lands across forestry zones in Ukraine with the purpose of using them for timber production, erosion prevention and climate change mitigation. The research reveals that establishment of new forests to increase timber production...

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...

Invasive species pose an enormous threat in the Pacific: not only do they strongly affect biodiversity, but they also potentially affect the economic, social, and cultural wellbeing of Pacific peoples. Invasive species can potentially be managed and their impacts can potentially be avoided,...

El descuento juega un papel central y controvertido en la evaluacion de politicas en el largo y muy largo plazo: central por el peso tiene en los reultados de la evaluacion economica en escenarios intergeneracionales, y controvertido por la dificultad de reconciliar primacia del presente sobre...