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La Problemática Del Descuento En La Evaluación Económica De Proyectos Con Impacto Intergeneracional: Tasa Ambiental Crítica Y Montante De Transferencia Intergeneracional/Discounting In The Context Of Intergenerational Projects’ Appraisal: Environmental Discount Rate And Intergenerational Transfer Amount

ALMANSA SÁEZ, CARMEN; CALATRAVA REQUENA, JAVIER - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 25 (2007) Abril, pp. 165-198

La primera parte de este trabajo presenta una revisión teórica de las principales posturas que subyacen a la controversia sobre el descuento en la evaluación mediante análisis coste-benefi cio de proyectos de amplio horizonte temporal. A continuación se expone una propuesta metodológica...

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Does the Value of a Statistical Life Vary with Age and Health Status? Evidence from the United States and Canada

Krupnick, Alan; Cropper, Maureen; Alberini, Anna; … - 2002

Much of the justification for environmental rulemaking rests on estimates of the benefits to society of reduced mortality rates. Yet the literature providing estimates of the willingness to pay (WTP) for mortality risk reductions measures the value that healthy, prime-aged adults place on...

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Cost- benefit analysis of the location of new forest land

Moons, Ellen - Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Faculteit Economie … - 2002

In this paper we show how cost-benefit analysis can be used as a decision support mechanism for the location of new … cost-benefit analysis (CBA) technique. Key features of this evaluation technique are that (i) all - both positive and … negative - impacts for all relevant parties (i.e. not only the project promoter) are taken into account and (ii) evaluation …

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Considering household size in contingent valuation studies

Ahlheim, Michael; Schneider, Friedrich - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In many empirical contingent valuation studies one finds that household size, i.e. the number of household members, is negatively correlated with stated household willingness to pay for the realization of environmental projects. This observation is rather puzzling because in larger households...

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A note on the valuation of collective goods: overlooked input market free riding for non-individually incrementable goods

Graves, Philip E. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

For at least fifty years economists have argued that vertically-aggregated marginal willingness to pay, when set equal to marginal provision cost, will result in optimal public good provision levels. This methodological approach would be expected to yield an exact analog, in terms of optimal...

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And Then There Were Four ...: How Many (and Which) Measures of Active Labor Market Policy Do We Still Need? ; Finding a Balance after the Evaluation of the Hartz Reforms in Germany

Eichhorst, Werner; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

systematically evaluated. This paper reviews the recent evaluation findings and draws some conclusions for the future setup of active … a systematic evaluation of all instruments not scrutinized so far. …

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Evaluitis – Eine Neue Krankheit

Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2006

: incentives are distorted, ossification is induced and the decision approach is wrongly conceived. As a result, evaluations are …

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Dann waren’s nur noch vier...Wie viele (und welche) Maßnahmen der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik brauchen wir noch? Eine Bilanz nach der Evaluation der Hartz-Reformen

Eichhorst, Werner; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

policies in Germany were overhauled considerably. The paper reviews the recent evaluation findings and draws some conclusion … placement vouchers) and calls for a systematic evaluation of all schemes not scrutinized so far. …

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And Then There Were Four... How Many (and Which) Measures of Active Labour Market Policy Do We Still Need?

Eichhorst, Werner; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

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Evaluitis ? Eine neue Krankheit

Frey, Bruno S. - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2006

: incentives are distorted, ossification is induced and the decision approach is wrongly conceived. As a result, evaluations are …

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