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

One of the characteristics of Demand-Driven Production is that goods should be manufactured and delivered to customers within the specified pe-riod of time. Manufacturers achieve this by utilizing various efficient production planning, scheduling tools and techniques. But situations may arise...

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...

This paper discusses a methodology used for a qualitative cost-benefit evaluation of a complex, emergent program. Complex, emergent programs, where implementation varies considerably over time and across sites to respond to local needs and opportunities, present challenges to conventional...

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...

Making decisions about optimal investments in green infrastructure necessitates setting social discount rates. This paper suggests a practical way for determining the discount rate for projects or programmes in which one of the options is to maintain or restore land to an undeveloped state. We...

This paper shows that implicit assumptions about the numeraire good in the Kaldor–Hicks efficiency–equity analysis involve a “same-yardstick” fallacy (a fallacy pointed out by Paul Samuelson in another context). These results have negative implications for cost-benefit analysis, the...