This is an overview of what cost analysis is all about, the types of cost analyses we implement at the IRC and what kinds of questions they can answer. Watch the full Cost analysis in Excel playlist.

That isn’t what benefit-cost analysis—required by presidents for more than 40 years and increasingly by courts—is supposed to do.

The Biden Administration is revising the rules for how agencies conduct cost-benefit analyses, and some CBA experts have expressed concerns.

Cost-Benefit Analysis, Except For National Security For decades, the U.S. government generally has required analysis that benefits outweigh costs when issuing new regulations.

A number of OECD countries make extensive use of cost benefit analysis (CBA) to help inform environmental policy decisions. This discussion panel will reflect on this use and take stock of recent ...