1.
Marketing Analysis in Project Evaluation
Harvard Institute for International Development, Development Discussion Paper No. 341
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 16 Apr 2001
Last Revised: 10 Nov 2008
Working Paper Series
Queen's University - John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy
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4,371
2.
Over Budget, Over Time, Over and Over Again: Managing Major Projects
Peter W. G. Morris, Jeffrey K. Pinto, and Jonas Söderlund, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Project Management, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 321-344, 2013, DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199563142.003.0014
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 13 Jun 2013
Last Revised: 09 Jan 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Said Business SchoolIT University of Copenhagen
Downloads
3,451
3.
Design by Deception: The Politics of Megaproject Approval
Harvard Design Magazine, Spring/Summer, no. 22, pp. 50-59
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 23 Mar 2013
Last Revised: 24 Jun 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Said Business SchoolIT University of Copenhagen
Downloads
3,032
4.
La Valoración de Proyectos de Inversión Productivos (Project Valuation)
Monografías de Juan Mascareñas sobre Finanzas Corporativas, ISSN: 1988-1878, 2008
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 21 Aug 2013
Last Revised: 12 Jan 2018
Working Paper Series
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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2,908
5.
Quality Control and Due Diligence in Project Management: Getting Decisions Right by Taking the Outside View
International Journal of Project Management, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 760-774, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2012.10.007
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 14 Mar 2013
Last Revised: 06 Jan 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Said Business SchoolIT University of Copenhagen
Downloads
2,351
6.
Investment and the Weighted Average Cost of Capital
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 04 Mar 2012
Last Revised: 20 Jul 2015
Working Paper Series
University of Minnesota and Tsinghua University
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1,973
7.
El Riesgo País (Country Risk)
24 - El Riesgo País, enero 2008
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 25 Aug 2013
Last Revised: 13 Aug 2017
Working Paper Series
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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1,782
8.
The Social Cost of Carbon: Trends, Outliers and Catastrophes
Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, Vol. 2, 2008-25
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 18 Dec 2010
Accepted Paper Series
VU University Amsterdam - Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM)
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Social Cost of Carbon: Trends, Outliers and Catastrophes
Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, Vol. 2, 2008-25
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 18 Dec 2010
Downloads
1,738
The Social Cost of Carbon: Trends, Outliers and Catastrophes
Economics Discussion Paper No. 2007-44
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 29 Nov 2010
Downloads
58
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1,738
9.
Does Infrastructure Investment Lead to Economic Growth or Economic Fragility? Evidence from China
Atif Ansar, Bent Flyvbjerg, Alexander Budzier, and Daniel Lunn, 2016, 'Does Infrastructure Investment Lead to Economic Growth or Economic Fragility? Evidence from China,' Oxford Review of Economic Policy, vol. 32, no. 3, autumn, pp. 360–390. DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/grw022.
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 06 Sep 2016
Last Revised: 04 Oct 2016
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Said Business School, University of Oxford - Said Business SchoolIT University of Copenhagen, University of Oxford - Saïd Business School and University of Oxford - Department of Statistics
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1,696
10.
The Future of the Commons - Beyond Market Failure and Government Regulation
Institute of Economic Affairs Monographs, 2012, Indiana University, Bloomington School of Public & Environmental Affairs Research Paper No. 2012-12-02
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 20 May 2013
Last Revised: 22 Aug 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Indiana University Bloomington - School of Public & Environmental Affairs (SPEA), Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD), King's College London - Department of Political Economy and University of Arizona - Department of Political Economy and Moral Science
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1,531
11.
CEO Overconfidence and Stock Price Crash Risk
Contemporary Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 27 Sep 2013
Last Revised: 05 Aug 2020
Accepted Paper Series
City University of Hong Kong, City University of Hong Kong and Singapore Management University - School of Accountancy
Downloads
1,485
12.
Procedures for Dealing with Optimism Bias in Transport Planning
London: The British Department for Transport, Guidance Document, June 2004
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 13 Jun 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Said Business SchoolIT University of Copenhagen, Independent and Independent
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1,299
13.
Capital Investment Appraisal in Retail Business Management: Sainsbury's as a Case Study
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 07 Feb 2014
Working Paper Series
European Management University International (EMUI)
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1,243
14.
How Should Benefits and Costs Be Discounted in an Intergenerational Context? The Views of an Expert Panel
Resources for the Future Discussion Paper No. 12-53
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 12 Jan 2013
Working Paper Series
Stanford University - Department of Economics, University of Maryland - Department of Economics, University of Toulouse 1 - Industrial Economic Institute (IDEI), University of Oxford - Department of Economics, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance, Duke University - Nicholas School of Environment, Yale University - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Duke University, University of Arizona - Eller College of Management, Göteborg University - Department of Economics, The Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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1,080
15.
Network Externalities and Real Option Evaluation
THE ECONOMICS OF ONLINE MARKET AND ICT NETWORKS, R. Cooper, G. Madden, A. Lloyd and M. Schipp, eds., Physica-Verlag, May 2006
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 13 Feb 2011
Accepted Paper Series
IDRAC Business School and Université d'Évry - Equipe d'Analyse et Probabilites
Downloads
1,070
16.
Methods of Impact Evaluation: A Review
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 31 Mar 2017
Last Revised: 15 May 2017
Working Paper Series
Gangadhar Meher University and Business Administration Department, Sambalpur UniversitySambalpur University
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1,029
17.
The Social Losses from Inefficient Infrastructure Projects: Recent Australian Experience
Number of pages: 80
Posted: 11 Sep 2009
Working Paper Series
Independent and Griffith University - Griffith Business School, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics
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970
18.
Valuing the Future: The Social Discount Rate in Cost-Benefit Analysis
Number of pages: 192
Posted: 11 May 2010
Accepted Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN
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969
19.
IRR Performs Better than NPV: A Critical Analysis of Cases of Multiple IRR and Mutually Exclusive and Independent Investments
Revised and updated version as of 23 Aug, 2017
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 10 Feb 2017
Last Revised: 14 Sep 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Independent
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928
20.
A New Method to Estimate NPV and IRR from the Capital Amortization Schedule and an Insight into Why NPV Is Not the Appropriate Criterion for Capital Investment Decision
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 19 Jan 2017
Last Revised: 30 Aug 2017
Working Paper Series
Independent
Downloads
884
21.
Very Long-Run Discount Rates
Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 106
Posted: 28 Oct 2013
Last Revised: 03 Nov 2014
Working Paper Series
Yale School of Management, Harvard University and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
Very Long-Run Discount Rates
Fama-Miller Working Paper
Number of pages: 106
Posted: 28 Oct 2013
Last Revised: 03 Nov 2014
Downloads
790
Very Long-Run Discount Rates
NBER Working Paper No. w20133
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 19 May 2014
Last Revised: 05 Jan 2022
Downloads
70
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790
22.
A Review of Solar Photovoltaic Levelized Cost of Electricity
Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Vol. 15, pp. 4470-4482, 2011
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 18 Feb 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Queen's University, Queen's University and Western University
Downloads
759
23.
The Hedonic Method: Value of Statistical Life, Wage Compensation, and Property Value Compensation
RESEARCH TOOLS IN NATURAL RESOURCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS, Chapter 7, pp. 189-213, (page proofs), A. Batabyal and P. Nijkamp, eds., World Scientific, 2011
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 26 Jan 2010
Last Revised: 03 Apr 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Economics
Downloads
675
24.
Present Bias and Collective Dynamic Choice in the Lab
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 13 Oct 2012
Last Revised: 12 Apr 2014
Working Paper Series
Stanford University - Department of Economics and Princeton University
Downloads
673
25.
Modigliani & Miller III, A Fundamental Critique
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 07 Aug 2010
Last Revised: 11 Aug 2010
Working Paper Series
The Hague Executive Campus - Department of Finance
Downloads
592
26.
Using Mixed Methods in Monitoring and Evaluation: Experiences from International Development
BWPI Working Paper No. 107
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 05 Feb 2010
Working Paper Series
World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), affiliation not provided to SSRN and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)
There are 2 versions of this paper
Using Mixed Methods in Monitoring and Evaluation: Experiences from International Development
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5245
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 20 Apr 2016
Downloads
2,767
Using Mixed Methods in Monitoring and Evaluation: Experiences from International Development
BWPI Working Paper No. 107
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 05 Feb 2010
Downloads
590
Downloads
590
27.
Planning Fallacy or Hiding Hand: Which is the Better Explanation?
World Development, Vol. 103, 2018
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 30 Jan 2018
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Said Business SchoolIT University of Copenhagen
Downloads
586
28.
Project Finance: Fundamental Elements and Critical Issues
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 09 May 2019
Working Paper Series
SMC University
Downloads
584
29.
The Controversial Reinvestment Assumption in IRR and NPV Estimates: New Evidence against Reinvestment Assumption
Cost‐benefit Analysis and the Controversial Reinvestment Assumption in IRR and NPV Estimates: Some New Evidence against Reinvestment Assumption, Economic Papers, 36 ( 3), 351– 63, 2017
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 17 Feb 2017
Last Revised: 21 Oct 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Independent and Macquarie Bank Ltd.
Downloads
577
30.
Do Youth Employment Programs Improve Labor Market Outcomes? A Systematic Review
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10263
Number of pages: 66
Posted: 10 Oct 2016
Working Paper Series
Humboldt University of BerlinRWI, International Labour Organization (ILO), World Bank, World Bank, World Bank, Humboldt University of Berlin, International Labour Organization (ILO) and University of Oxford
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562
31.
Private Wealth and Public Goods: A Case for a National Investment Authority
43 J. CORP. L. 437 (2018)., Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-22
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 23 Mar 2017
Last Revised: 22 Nov 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Cornell University - Law School and Cornell University - Law School
Downloads
557
32.
An Introduction to Participatory Value Evaluation
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper 2019-024/V
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 22 Apr 2019
Last Revised: 15 Dec 2019
Working Paper Series
Delft University of Technology, VU University Amsterdam - Department of Spatial Economics and University of Leeds - Institute for Transport Studies
Downloads
547
33.
Environmental Impact Assessment in Post-Colonial Societies: Reflections on the Proposed Expansion of the Panama Canal
Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy, Vol. 4, No. 2, p. 303, 2008
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 28 Aug 2008
Last Revised: 17 Apr 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Downloads
546
34.
Capital Budgeting Practices: Evidence from Japan
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 19 Aug 2013
Last Revised: 15 May 2014
Working Paper Series
Chuo University - Policy Studies and Aoyama Gakuin University - Department of Economics
Downloads
503
35.
A Study on the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) Process in Secondary Schools in Guntur District
IMPACT: International Journal of Research in Humanities, Arts and Literature, Vol. 6, Issue 1, Jan 2018, 347-352
Number of pages: 6
Posted: 17 Feb 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Acharya Nagarjuna University - Department of Education
Downloads
466
36.
The Geography of Grocery Demand in the UK: An Evaluation of the 2003 Morrisons-Safeway Merger
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 22 May 2012
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN
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465
37.
The Rate of Discount for Benefit-Cost Analysis and Theory of the Second Best
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 25 Aug 2000
Working Paper Series
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
Downloads
462
38.
Cost Benefit Analysis of Watershed Development Programme: A Study of Bichhiwada Watershed Project, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 14 Dec 2008
Working Paper Series
IIT Madras, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Downloads
461
39.
Case Studies on Trade-Offs in Corporate Sustainability
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 63-68, March/ April 2012
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 23 Mar 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Victoria - Faculty of Business, University of Manchester - Manchester Business School and IZT - Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment
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422
40.
Project Finance and Preliminary Risk Assessment
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 12 Mar 2013
Working Paper Series
University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA)
Downloads
408
41.
Do Wealth Creating Mergers and Acquisitions Really Hurt Bidder Shareholders?
FIRN Research Paper No. 2517209
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 31 Oct 2014
Last Revised: 17 Feb 2017
Working Paper Series
University of New South Wales (UNSW)UNSW Business School, University of New South Wales, Sydney and University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney
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404
42.
The Commission’s New SGEI Package: The Rules for State Aid and the Compensation of Services of General Economic Interest
TILEC Discussion Paper No. 2012-018
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 26 Apr 2012
Working Paper Series
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - Faculty of LawTilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC)
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400
43.
How (In)Accurate Are Demand Forecasts in Public Works Projects? The Case of Transportation
Journal of the American Planning Association, vol. 71, no. 2, pp. 131-146.
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 23 Mar 2013
Last Revised: 04 Oct 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Said Business SchoolIT University of Copenhagen, Aalborg Municipality and Aalborg University
Downloads
367
44.
Rationality or Rationalism: The Positive and Normative Flaws of Cost-Benefit Analysis
Houston Law Review, Vol. 48, No. 1, p. 79, 2011, Emory Law and Economics Research Paper No. 11-101, Emory Public Law Research Paper No. 11-150
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 02 Apr 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Emory University School of Law
Downloads
350
45.
Capital Budgeting – The Tools for Project Evaluation
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 22 Feb 2021
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRNInternational Training Institute
Downloads
346
46.
Discounting for Climate Change
Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, Vol. 3, 2009-24
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 18 Dec 2010
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Berkeley - Energy and Resources Group, VU University Amsterdam - Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) and Wesleyan University - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
Discounting for Climate Change
Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, Vol. 3, 2009-24
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 18 Dec 2010
Downloads
337
Discounting for Climate Change
Economics Discussion Paper No. 2009-15
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 18 Dec 2010
Downloads
38
Downloads
337
47.
Policymaking for Posterity
HKS Working Paper No. RWP08-040, Harvard Law School Program on Risk Regulation Research Paper No. 08-2
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 11 Sep 2008
Last Revised: 12 Nov 2008
Working Paper Series
Harvard University and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
There are 2 versions of this paper
Policymaking for Posterity
HKS Working Paper No. RWP08-040, Harvard Law School Program on Risk Regulation Research Paper No. 08-2
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 11 Sep 2008
Last Revised: 12 Nov 2008
Downloads
314
Policymaking for Posterity
NBER Working Paper No. w14359
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 23 Sep 2008
Last Revised: 28 Mar 2021
Downloads
38
Downloads
314
48.
Critical Success Factors Influencing the Performance of Development Projects: An Empirical Study of Constituency Development Fund Projects in Kenya
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 26 Dec 2015
Working Paper Series
Kisii University and University of Delhi
Downloads
313
49.
A New Choice in Multi-Period Investment Performance Attribution: Effective Return versus Geometric Smoothing
Journal of Performance Measurement, Summer 2012
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 01 Jul 2012
Accepted Paper Series
PPCA Inc.
Downloads
308
50.
How Do Consumer Characteristics Affect the Bias in Measuring Willingness to Pay for Innovative Products?
Journal of Product Innovation Management, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 20 Mar 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Lucerne - Faculty of Economics and Management, HEC Paris, University of Bern and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School - Department of Marketing
Downloads
292
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