Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

In our last issue, Steven Kelman of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government criticized cost-benefit analysis from the perspective not of economics but of ethical theory. He concluded that in health, ...

The social cost of carbon (SCC) quantifies the economic damage associated with emitting a ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Regulatory impact analyses from U.S. federal agencies utilize the ...

A new research report from engineering firm WSP and the Helen Clark Foundation claims more Government agencies need to factor ...

The Biden Administration is revising the rules for how agencies conduct cost-benefit analyses, and some CBA experts have expressed concerns. Earlier this year, President Biden issued an Executive ...

In 2015, the UN General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which identify 169 targets for the world to hit by 2030. Lomborg’s think tank, the Copenhagen Consensus Center, ...

A large new global study of project performance over 86 years confirms that ingrained optimism bias results in forecast-based cost-benefit analyses "so misleading as to be worse than worthless," say ...

A new report says there is a need for a more evidence-led approach to infrastructure investment, with billions of taxpayer dollars being spent every year.

An economic analysis is a process in which business owners gain a clear picture of the existing economic climate, as it relates to their company's ability to thrive. Economists, statisticians, and ...

A cost analysis involves the process of reporting separate elements in a cost proposal, such as labor, equipment and materials that make up a product or service, as well as its proposed profit. It is ...