Lecture 2: CBA Valuing costs and benefits Flashcards

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What is WTP and WTA?

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For an enviromental improvement, thinking about CV, what is the WTP for an enviromental improvement?

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Thinking about an enviromental improvement, using EV what is the WTP/WTA for a consumer?

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What is the Hammit hunters example for WTA/WTP? What does it say about property rights?

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What is the general guidance on CV vs EV?

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How do estimates of WTP and WTA differ? Why do they differ?

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What are the two different types of demand curves that can be used to calculate WTP? Which is the correct one to use?

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Doing CBA is we knew the shapes of all demand curves would be easy. Why might this not be the case?

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Give an eample of what happens if a government was trying to estimate how demand would change in response to a change in bus prices (linear vs constant elasticity demand curve)

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When might market prices not be useful for CBA?

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What are the 6 broad types fo valuation as set out in the green book?

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What is the Total Economic Value framework?

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Total Economic Value (TEV) is a framework developed to assess why and how individuals value the benefits received from the environment

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Describe the main economic valuations methods

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What is the market analogy method for value estimation?

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Give an example of the market analogy method

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16
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What are revealed preferences?

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Market prices may reflect valuation of non-market goods and services
OECD (2018) describes this as seeking to ‘quantify the market ‘footprint’ of non-market goods or bads’

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What are the three types of revealed preferences?

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Give an overview of the 3 types of revealed preference methods. Describe:
1. Revealed behaviour
2. Conceptual framework
3. types of application

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Explain the travel cost method

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give an example of how travel cost method is used in the UK?

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What are the challenges with the travel cost method?

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Explain what hedonic pricing is? Explain how it can be used in house pricing?

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Give examples of what house prices say about the value of green space?

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What are the challenges fo hedonic pricing?

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Explain what defensive expenditure method is?
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What are the challenges with the defensive expenditure method?
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Summarise the strengths and weaknesses of revealed preferences techniques?