Regulating the Energy Transition: FERC and Cost-Benefit Analysis

Regulating the Rulemakers: A Proposal for Deliberative Cost-Benefit Analysis

Regulating Drinking Water Quality Incrementally: Better than Benefit-cost Analysis?

The use of benefit-cost analysis has expanded over the last twenty five years and now plays a key role in the formulation of new regulations, even regulations for the protection of human health. Regulatory decision making is, of necessity, based on pre-regulatory paper studies of costs and benefits. There has been relatively little post-regulatory validation of these benefit-cost estimates, but...

Benefit-cost analysis of non-marginal climate and energy projects

Conventional benefit-cost analysis incorporates the normally reasonable assumption that the policy or project under examination is marginal. Among the assumptions this entails is that the policy or project is small, so the underlying growth rate of the economy does not change. However, this assumption may be inappropriate in some important circumstances, including in climate-change and energy p...

Ecological and economic cost-benefit analysis of offshore wind energy

Wind energy has experienced dramatic growth over the past decade. A small fraction of this growth has occurred offshore, but as the best wind resources become developed onshore, there is increasing interest in the development of offshore winds. Like any form of power production, offshore wind energy has both positive and negative impacts. The potential negative impacts have stimulated a great d...

A Cost-Benefit Analysis

The purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare the clinical effects, safety, and economic cost of propofol and midazolam in the sedation of patients undergoing mechanionl ventilation in the ICU. Eighty-eight critically ill patients were studied and randomly allocated to receive short-term (less than 24 h), medium-term (24 h to 7 days), and prolonged (more than 7 days)continuous sedation ...