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    • Cost-benefit analysis and the democratic ideal 

      Nyborg, Karine; Spangen, Inger (Discussion Papers;No. 205, Working paper, 1997)
      In traditional cost-benefit analyses of public projects, every citizen’s willingness to pay for a project is given an equal weight. This is sometimes taken to imply that cost-benefit analysis is a democratic method for ...

    • Project evaluations and decision processes 

      Nyborg, Karine (Discussion papers;137, Working paper, 1995-02)
      Cost-benefit analysis have been attacked by many critics because of its implicit ethical assumptions. The normative content of the method is at odds with the common attitude that economists should analyze how to reach given ...

    • The Social cost of government spending in an economy with large tax distortions. A CGE decomposition for Norway 

      Holmøy, Erling; Strøm, Birger (Discussion Papers;No. 396, Working paper, 2004)
      Abstract: We use a CGE model to estimate the social cost of a marginal increase in public expenditure in Norway. Norway exemplifies an economy with high taxes. Distortionary taxes imply wedges between the market prices ...