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Cost-benefit analysis of bank regulation : does size matter?

Mulindi, Hillary - 2021

This study investigates the trade-off between costs and benefits of bank regulation in Kenya. Using the Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) and Annual data for the period 2003 - 2019, extracted from KBA Financial Database and KNBS macroeconomic data, the study models Industry-level and cluster...

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Three criteria for evaluating social programs

García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Heckman, James J. - 2022

This paper examines the economic foundations of three criteria used for evaluating the costs and benefits of social programs. Some criteria do not consider the scale of programs or address the costs associated with programs that expand or contract the total government budget. A recent addition...

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Back to Edgeworth? : estimating the value of time using hedonic experiences

Krekel, Christian; MacKerron, George - 2023

Following early economist Francis Y. Edgeworth's proposal to measure people's hedonic experiences as they go about their daily lives, we use a smartphone app that over eight years randomly asked a panel of 30, 936 UK residents (N = 2, 235, 733) about their momentary feelings and activities to...

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Embedded discounting

Sneum, Daniel Møller; Soysal, Emilie Rosenlund; Nesje, … - 2023

The appraisal of public investments is subject to formal guidelines which often require input prices, such as forecasted energy prices. Using Danish guidelines as a case study, we explore the discounting assumptions in these input prices and find rates ranging from 2.97% to 17.5%, markedly...

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It's fundamental: welfare theorems, market failures, and the turn from "public finance" to "public economics"

Medema, Steven G. - 2022 - Version 1.3

economists had done "work of high quality and great quantity in the field of taxation," the theory of public expenditure had been … inquiries. Indeed, by the mid-1980s the 'public expenditure theory' lacuna lamented by Samuelson had largely been filled with … explain this transformation, locating its origins in Richard Musgrave's normative theory of the public household and the …

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The Social Value of Mortality Risk Reduction: VSL vs. the Social Welfare Function Approach

Adler, Matthew; Hammitt, James; Treich, Nicolas - Laboratoire d'Économie des Ressources Naturelles … - 2012

We examine how different welfarist frameworks evaluate the social value of mortality riskreduction. These frameworks …

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The Social Value of Mortality Risk Reduction: VSL vs. the Social Welfare Function Approach

Adler, Matthew; Hammitt, James; Treich, Nicolas - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2012

We examine how different welfarist frameworks evaluate the social value of mortality riskreduction. These frameworks …

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The Social Value of Mortality Risk Reduction: VSL vs. the Social Welfare Function Approach

Adler, Matthew; Hammitt, James; Treich, Nicolas - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2012

We examine how different welfarist frameworks evaluate the social value of mortality riskreduction. These frameworks …

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Increasing coverage of antiretroviral therapy and male medical circumcision in HIV hyperendemic countries : a cost-benefit analysis

Geldsetzer, Pascal; Bloom, David E.; Humair, Salal; … - 2015

HIV continues to cause the largest number of disability-adjusted life years of any disease in HIV hyperendemic countries (i.e., countries with an adult HIV prevalence 15%). We compare the benefits and costs of two proven biological interventions to reduce the health losses due to the HIV...

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The value of a statistical life in Mexico

Lima, Marcelo de - In: Journal of environmental economics and policy 9 (2020) 2, pp. 140-166

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