On the Differences Between the Commercial and Economic Profitability of a Project

H. Ike Van de Wetering

ISU General Staff Papers from Iowa State University, Department of Economics

Abstract: The economic profitability of a project is derived from it's commercial profitability by making two adjustments. First, an adjustment needs to be made for the change in.the sum of consumers' surplus arid factor rents. Second, an adjustment has to be made for the change in tax revenues and subsidies. Conventional practice ignores the former adjustment and mistakenly asstimes that the taxes or subsidies paid by the project

Date: 1990-02-01
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