This paper is concerned with the modern theory of social cost-bene.t analysis in <p> a dynamic economy. The theory emphasizes the role of a comprehensive, forward- <p> looking, dynamic welfare index within the period of the project rather than that <p> of a project.s long-term consequences. However, what...</p></p></p>

This paper is concerned with the choice of metrics for social cost-benefit analysis and dynamic welfare comparisons. In a utility-theoretic framework, we show that there is always a money measure that can serve as a substitute for the maximized utility wealth. Thus, under the non-arbitrage...

The concept of genuine saving appeared for the first time in a proof of a now well known theorem in Weitzman (1976). It was reinvented and used as a local welfare indicator by Pearce and Atkinson (1993). The purpose of this paper is to generalize this welfare measure to a stochastic Brownian...

Based on an ideal index for de.ating after-project prices, we derive a dynamic cost-bene.t rule for evaluating large projects. We show that, in addition to the conventional income and consumer surplus meaures, the rule also entails an extra term involving capital and investment cost changes.

This note shows that the welll-known Hotelling rule holds for a wider class of capital investment projects with a property of process independence. Optimality behavior is therefore not a necessary condition for deriving the result.

We show that growth in NNP measured in constant prices indicates welfare improvement, provided that an observable rate of return measure is positive. This is an <p> alternative welfare interpretation of growth in comprehensive NNP compared with <p> that of Asheim and Weitzman (2001, this journal)...</p></p>

This paper is an attempt to investigate the cost-of-living index problem in a general equilibrium multi-sector growth model. Instead of using the utility function as a compensation criterion as Konüs’ (1924) did in his original contribution, we take advantage of the current-value Hamiltonian...