Papers & Presentations

2007 Benefit-Cost Analysis Conference Papers and Presentations

The conference was held May 18-19, 2007.

• Transportation Benefit-Cost Analysis: It's All About Inputs! (556 KB PDF) Presentation (470 KB PDF) by Chris Williges and Mahmoud Mahdavi; presented by Chris Williges

• A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Private Versus Semi-Private Inpatient Rooms in a New Hospital (129 KB PDF) Presentation (336 KB PDF) by Anthony Boardman and Diane Forbes; presented by Anthony Boardman

• Using the Kaldor-Hicks Tableau Format for Cost-Benefit Analysis and Stakeholder Evaluation (171 KB PDF) / Presentation (96 KB PDF) by Kerry Krutilla; presented by Kerry Krutilla

• An Ethical Benefit-Cost Analysis by Richard Zerbe Jr.

• Suggested New Steps Toward the Practical Implementation of Cost-Benefit Analysis (83 KB PDF) by Arnold Harberger

• Galactosemia: Testing Newborn Infants for Metabolic Disorders (485 KB PDF) Presentation (189 KB PDF) by Cathy Carruthers, Ron Scott, Mike Glass, John Thompson; presented by Cathy Carruthers

• Production Response to Increased Imports, Presentation (307 KB PDF) by Lynn Kennedy and Andrew Schmitz; presented by Andrew Schmitz

• The "Stern Review" and Its Critics: Implications for the Theory and Practice of Benefit-Cost Analysis (197 KB PDF) Presentation (730 KB PDF) by Daniel Cole; presented by Daniel Cole

• The Welfare Economics of Sharing Fixed Costs of Product Safety Regulation, Presentation (1,007 KB PDF) by Richard Just; presented by Richard Just

• The Information Industry, Distant Use Value and the Exxon Valdez, Presentation (235 KB PDF) by R. Scott Farrow and Douglas M. Larson; presented by Scott Farrow

• Cost-Effective Species Conservation, Presentation (768 KB PDF) by Mark Plummer

• To Trade or Not to Trade: The Endowment Effect and Manipulations of the Reference State (72 KB PDF) by Jack Knetsch and Wei-Kang Wong; presented by Jack Knetsch

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