Book Launch: Cost-Benefit Analysis of Multi-Level Government

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Multi-Level Government: The Case of EU Cohesion Policy and of US Federal Investment Policies
by Dr Alessandro Ferrara

 

Left to right; A. Mairate, G. Myles, A. Ferrara

The Institute for European Studies (IES) at the Vrije Universitetit Brussel would like to thank all participants present on the book launch of Dr. Alessandro Ferrara (Unit Economic and Quantative Analysis, Additionality, DG REGIO, European Commission). 

The book recently published in London and New York by Routledge provides an original framework for assessing public investment policies co-financed by Union (Federal) governments. This framework is applied to the EU Cohesion Policy and the US Federal Investment Policies. It strongly advocates the case for EU Cohesion Policy across all European Union. Guidelines such as the Impact Assessment Guidelines (European Commission), the Green Book (British Treasury), and Guidelines and Discount Rates for Benefit-Cost Analysis of Federal Programs (Executive Office of the US President) are also analyzed.

 

Chair:
Prof. Marc Jegers, Professor of management, managerial economics, management of non-profit organisations and accounting at the VUB

Present:
Dr. Alessandro Ferrara, Unit Economic and Quantative Analysis, Additionality, DG REGIO, European Commission

Discussants:
Prof Andrea Mairate, European Commission DG REGIO and VUB
Prof. Gareth D. Myles, Professor of Economics - University of Exeter, Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Fraude
 

Venue

Institute for European Studies
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pleinlaan 15 - 5th floor,
1050 Brussels
 

Please find attached a synopsis of the book.

Dr. Ferrara's and Prof. Myles' presentation used during the event can now also be downloaded, as well as other pictures from the event.