Benefit–Cost Analyses for Security Policies

Edited by Carol Mansfield and V. Smith

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Abstract: Benefit–Cost Analyses for Security Policies describes how to undertake the evaluation of security policies within the framework of benefit–cost analysis and offers a unique contribution to analysis of homeland security regulations in the United States. The authors outline how established procedures for benefit–cost analysis must adapt to meet challenges posed by current security policy, through examining specific security related regulations. The logic of risk assessment, selection of a discount rate, valuation of travellers’ time when delayed due to screening, valuation of changes in risks of injury or death, and impacts of terrorist events on the economy as a whole are among the issues discussed. An outline of the research and policy evaluation steps needed to build robust benefit–cost methods to evaluate security related regulations in the future is presented in the book.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
ISBN: 9781784711078
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introducing the issues: meeting the challenges in evaluating homeland security policies , pp 3-25

Carol Mansfield and V. Smith

Ch 2 The design of benefit–cost architecture for homeland security policy analysis , pp 26-60

V. Smith and Carol Mansfield

Ch 3 Lessons from risk assessment, economics, and risk management at EPA , pp 63-77

Chris Dockins and William Wheeler

Ch 4 The heterogeneity of the value of statistical life: evidence and policy implications , pp 78-116

W Viscusi

Ch 5 Dealing with safety in UK public sector project appraisal , pp 117-139

Michael Jones-Lee

Ch 6 A comparison of key benefit estimation issues for natural hazards and terrorism: ex ante/ex post valuation and endogenous risk , pp 140-154

Robert Farrow

Ch 7 Urban adaptation to low-probability shocks: contrasting terrorism and natural disaster risk , pp 157-171

Matthew Kahn

Ch 8 Macroeconomic consequences of terrorist attacks: estimation for the analysis of policies and rules , pp 172-200

Adam Rose

Ch 9 Valuing time for Department of Homeland Security projects and policies , pp 203-224

Kenneth E. McConnell

Ch 10 Applicability of benefit transfers for evaluation of homeland security counterterrorism measures , pp 225-253

Kevin Boyle, Sapna Kaul, Ali Hashemi and Xiaoshu Li

Ch 11 What we know and what we need to learn , pp 254-266

Carol Mansfield and V. Smith

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