Arthur Grimes has previously received funding from the New Zealand Treasury to examine the social discount rate which is one input into CBAx. Arthur Grimes is a Senior Fellow of Motu Research, and is ...

In addition to out-of-pocket expenses are the bikeway’s social costs. In 2025 that included quality hours lost by 38,000 westbound vehicle travelers. That’s inevitable when they encounter traffic ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Fred L. Smith Jr. Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Draft Report to Congress on the Benefits and Costs of Federal ...

The Bethany Reservoir is a proposed terminus for the Delta Conveyance project where water will flow into the California Aqueduct. A new financial analysis of California’s ambitious but controversial ...

A feasibility study analyzes all of the critical aspects of a proposed project. Understand how these studies work, how to conduct them, and the benefits involved.

If you were to do a cost-benefit analysis of your lunch, it would be pretty difficult to do the calculation without the sandwich. But it appears that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is ...

From financial dashboards to factory-based assembly, utilities and their contractors are deploying new tools and processes to improve project cost performance. In decades past, the decision to pursue ...