The choice of an appropriate social rate of discount is critical in the decision-making process on public investments. In this paper we review the literature on social discounting, and address in particular a recently growing field of related research, that is, individual time preferences. We...

Results from past studies on transport elasticities show a large variance. The aim of this paper is to assess key factors that influence the sensitivity of travellers to transport costs in Europe, by carrying out a comparative analysis of the different elasticity values of demand for transport...

Meta-analysis refers to the statistical analysis of empirical estimates obtained in previous studies, and is increasingly used in environmental and natural resource economics as a complement to a state-of-the-art literature review. The occurrence of dependence or auto-correlation among study...