290044 Economic Valuation Methods and Cost-Benefit Analysis

Detaljer
Fødevareøkonomisk Institut
Tidligst mulig placeringKandidat 1.år til Kandidat 2. år
VarighedEn blok
 
Pointværdi7.5 (ECTS)
KursustypeKandidatkursus
 
EksamenSluteksamen

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Beskrivelse af eksamen: 4-hours written exam in curriculum

Vægtning: Written exam: 100%



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Eksamensdatoer:
24 January 2008
 
Rammer for undervisningLectures and theoretical exercises
 
BlokplaceringBlock 2
Ugestruktur: A
 
UndervisningssprogEngelsk
 
Anbefalede forudsætninger290037 Welfare Economics and Policy Analysis
290013 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
290042 Applied Econometrics for Environmental, Agricultural and Food Economists
 
Begrænset deltagerantalNone
 
Kompetenceområder
Competences within basic science:
The welfare economic foundation for economic valuation methods and environmental cost-benefit analysis. Other economic theories relevant for project and policy appraisal.

Competences within applied science:
Statistical methods and other analytical techniques to economic valuation and project appraisal problems.

Competences within Ethics & Values:
The value and weighing concepts of neoclassical welfare economics compared to other ethical theories of value.
 
Kursets målsætning
It is the aim to provide the participants with the theoretical and methodological instruments required to conduct policy and project appraisals within the sphere of environmental protection and natural resource utilization.
 
Kursusindhold
Core components of the course are: (a) Value concepts and welfare measures; (b) Markets, general equilibrium and Pareto optimality; (c) Social welfare functions; (d) Revealed and stated preference methods for valuation, including: Production Function Approaches, Travel Cost Methods, Hedonic Value Methods, Contingent Valuation Method and Choice Modelling; (e) Aggregation of values across time (discounting); (f) Cost-benefit analysis.
 
Undervisningsform
Teaching is in the form of lectures and exercises.
 
Målbeskrivelse

Stipulated in "Areas of Competence the Course Will Address"
 
Litteraturhenvisninger
Bateman, Ian J. et al.: Economic Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques: A Manual, Edward Elgar, 2002

Freeman, A. M.: The Measurement of Environmental and Resource Values, 2nd Edition, Resources for the Future, 2003.

Johansson, P.-O.: Cost-benefit analysis of environmental change, Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Layard, R. & Glaister, S. (Eds.) (1994): Cost-Benefit Analysis, Cambridge University Press.

Pearce, David, Ben Groom, Cameron Hepburn & Phoebe Koundouri: Valuing the Future. Recent advances in social discounting, World Economics, Vol. 4, No. 2 April-June 2003: pp 121-141.
 
Kursusansvarlig
Alex Dubgaard, adu@life.ku.dk, Fødevareøkonomisk Institut/Afdeling for Miljø og Regional Udvikling, Tlf: 35332280
 
Studienævn
Studienævn NSN
 
Kursusbeskrivelsesomfang
forelæsninger42
teoretiske øvelser28
eksamen4
forberedelse132

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