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cost–benefit analysis: philosophical issues
Hansson, Sven Ove - Palgrave Macmillan
Cost–benefit analysis (CBA) gives rise to a whole range of philosophical issues. The most discussed among these is the status of economic values that are assigned to assets conceived as incommensurable with money, such as a human life or the continued existence of an animal species. CBA...
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Life-cycle preferences over consumption and health: when is cost-effectiveness analysis equivalent to cost-benefit analysis?
Bleichrodt, H; Quiggin, J - 1999
This paper studies life-cycle preferences over consumption and health status. We show that cost-effectiveness analysis is consistent with cost-benefit analysis if the Lifetime utility function is additive over time, multiplicative in the utility of consumption and the utility of health status,...
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Floodplain Inundation Analysis Combined with Contingent Valuation: Implications for Sustainable Flood Risk Management
Ghanbarpour, M.; Saravi, Mohsen; Salimi, Shokoufe - In: Water Resources Management 28 (2014) 9, pp. 2491-2505
inundation analysis and floodplain risk mapping were conducted by applying the HEC-RAS model combined with GIS analysis. A … calibrated 100-year flood risk inundation map was considered as a basis for this research. This paper demonstrates applicability … of CVM combined with flood inundation analysis to understand public participation for flood risk management, and their …
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Reisekostenmethode und bedingte Bewertungsmethode : ein ökonomischer und ökonometrischer Vergleich
Löwenstein, Wilhelm - 1994
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Messung von Zahlungsbereitschaften bei industriellen Dienstleistungen
Niederauer, Christian - 2009
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Das erlebte Risiko als Determinante der Sparentscheidungen privater Anleger : empir. Befunde zur Nutzung 'höherer' Sparformen in d. österr. Bevölkerung
Schweiger, G.; Mazanec, J.; Wiegele, O. - 1977
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Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children: Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare
Birchenall, Javier A.; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a "value of life" type of framework. We are able to express adults’ willingness to pay for changes in child...
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Survival versus Consumption
Shepard, Donald S.; Zeckhauser, Richard J. - In: Management Science 30 (1984) 4, pp. 423-439
We develop an indirect method to estimate utility and willingness to pay (WTP) for reductions in the risk of death at …
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