December 15–16, 2014
Toulouse, France
Abstract
Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in applied benefit-cost analysis (BCA). On 15-16 December 2014 the benefit-cost group at the Toulouse School of Economics will organize a two-day workshop to discuss progress and challenges in applied BCA of government policies toward the environment, health, and other topics. The workshop will look at the roles of uncertainty, equity, and behavioral economics in the conduct and interpretation of BCA. It will also address legal and institutional perspectives on applied policy evaluation. Some prominent speakers including Matthew Adler (Duke University), Marc Fleurbaey (Princeton University), and Christian Gollier (Toulouse School of Economics) will present their research related to the above topics. Moreover, we expect several high-profile policy makers to participate in one or two roundtable discussions.
List of communications
Matthew Adler (Duke University), “Preference Heterogeneity, Extended Preferences and Social Welfare”, Recent advances and challenges in benefit-cost analysis, Toulouse, France, December 15–16, 2014.
Alberto Alemanno (HEC Paris), Emile Quinet (Paris School of Economics), and Matti Vainio (European Chemicals Agency), “Roundtable: “The role of BCA in regulatory decisions””, Recent advances and challenges in benefit-cost analysis, Toulouse, France, December 15–16, 2014.
Scott Farrow (University of Maryland, Baltimore), “Challenges in implementing the many concepts of risk and uncertainty”, Recent advances and challenges in benefit-cost analysis, Toulouse, France, December 15–16, 2014.
Marc Fleurbaey (Princeton University), “Equity weights under various conceptions of fairness”, Recent advances and challenges in benefit-cost analysis, Toulouse, France, December 15–16, 2014.
Christian Gollier (Toulouse School of Economics), “Gamma discounters are short-termist”, Recent advances and challenges in benefit-cost analysis, Toulouse, France, December 15–16, 2014.
Olof Johansson-Stenman (Gothenburg University), “How to deal with social comparisons in BCA and public policy”, Recent advances and challenges in benefit-cost analysis, Toulouse, France, December 15–16, 2014.
Emmanuelle Lavaine (University of Savoie), “Air pollution and Hedonic Prices Model”, Recent advances and challenges in benefit-cost analysis, Toulouse, France, December 15–16, 2014.
Ian W. Martin (London School of Economics), and Robert S. Pindyck (MIT), “Averting catastrophes: the strange economics of Scylla and Charybdis”, Recent advances and challenges in benefit-cost analysis, Toulouse, France, December 15–16, 2014.
Antony Millner (London School of Economics), and Geoffrey Heal (Columbia University), “Resolving intertemporal conflicts: economics vs. politics”, Recent advances and challenges in benefit-cost analysis, Toulouse, France, December 15–16, 2014.
Nicholas Z. Muller (Middlebury College), “Environmental benefit-cost analysis and the national accounts”, Recent advances and challenges in benefit-cost analysis, Toulouse, France, December 15–16, 2014.
Karine Nyborg (University of Oslo), “Project evaluation with democratic decision-making: what does cost-benefit analysis really measure ?”, Recent advances and challenges in benefit-cost analysis, Toulouse, France, December 15–16, 2014.
Ari Rabl (Ecole des Mines - Paris), “Cost-benefit analysis for low emission zones”, Recent advances and challenges in benefit-cost analysis, Toulouse, France, December 15–16, 2014.
Nicolas Treich (Toulouse School of Economics), “Catastrophe aversion”, Recent advances and challenges in benefit-cost analysis, Toulouse, France, December 15–16, 2014.
Jonathan B. Wiener (Duke University), “The tragedy of the uncommons”, Recent advances and challenges in benefit-cost analysis, Toulouse, France, December 15–16, 2014.