Discover how cost-benefit analysis helps determine project viability by balancing financial and intangible factors, its ...

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 ...

Since the Reagan Administration, agencies have used benefit-cost analysis to determine whether a proposed rule will yield net benefits for the public. This not only helps to determine whether to ...

Politicians all too often reach for the regulation lever because “something must be done” – it could be costing businesses ...

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 ...

The coronavirus pandemic has forced governments to face excruciating trade-offs. Benefit-cost analysis is a standard framework for making policy trade-offs, and some have suggested that it be used to ...