Part I: Overview
1. Introduction to Cost-Benefit Analysis
2. Conceptual Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis

Part II: Fundamentals of Cost-Benefit Analysis
3. Basic Microeconomic Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis
4. Valuing Benefits and Costs in Primary Markets
5. Valuing Benefits and Costs in Secondary Markets
6. Discounting Benefits and Costs in Future Time Periods
7. Dealing with Uncertainty: Expected Value, Sensitivity Analysis, and the Value of Information
8. Option Price and Option Value
9. Existence Value
10. The Social Discount Rate

Part III: Valuation of Impacts
11. Valuing Impacts from Observed Behavior: Demonstrations
12. Valuing Impacts from Observed Behavior: Direct Estimation of Demand Curves
13. Valuing Impacts from Observed Behavior: Other Revealed Preference Methods
14. Contingent Valuation: Using Surveys to Elicit Information About Costs and Benefits
15. Shadow Prices from Secondary Sources
16. Shadow Prices: Applications to Developing Countries

Part IV: Related Methods and Accuracy
17. Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
18. Distributionally Weighted Cost-Benefit Analysis
19. How Accurate is CBA?
A Selected Cost-Benefit Analysis Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index