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When economists turned to applied benefit-cost analysis in the 1930s and 1940s, they adopted prices as indicators of benefits. This was consistent with both neoclassical economics (in which prices are marginal values) and institutional economics (which favored a plausible market mechanism to...
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This paper clarifies Dupuit's intention of justifying the building of public goods, and derives a new calculation scheme for CBA to support him. The reverse of the CBA logic offers significant measure of deadweight loss due to monopoly. Dupuit would condemn those economists arguing to use toll...
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Recent tobacco regulations proposed by the Food and Drug Administration have raised a thorny question: how should the cost-benefit analysis accompanying such policies value foregone consumer surplus associated with regulation-induced reductions in smoking? In a model with rational and fully...
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Recent tobacco regulations proposed by the Food and Drug Administration have raised a thorny question: how should the cost-benefit analysis accompanying such policies value foregone consumer surplus associated with regulation-induced reductions in smoking? In a model with rational and fully...
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When economists first turned to applied benefit-cost analysis in the 1930s and 1940s, prices were the only widely accepted measure of benefits. Perhaps surprisingly, economists did not consider measures like consumer surplus, which seemed quite foreign. Consequently, when they turned to...
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Verwaltungseinheiten in öffentlich-rechtliche Unternehmen oder Aktiengesellschaften umgewandelt (=formelle Privatisierung) und anschließend … stückweise an private Akteure übertragen (=materielle Privatisierung). Dieser Beitrag untersucht, ob die Konsumenten von diesen … dem die Privatisierung im Telekommunikationssektor für 15 europäische Länder von 1980 bis 2006 abgebildet werden kann. Der …
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resource harvesting. In a dynamic analysis we show that privatization increases the present values of consumer surplus and … privatization and indeed prefer open-access if the discount rate is sufficiently high. Applying the analysis to the North …-east Arctic Cod fishery, we find that socially efficient privatization would increase the present value of resource rent by 1 …
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