770G23 · 7.5 credits · Basic level (G1F) · Nationalekonomi
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Active · next start VT 2027
77%
passed the latest ordinary exam
TENT · 27 Mar 2026 · 56 students
68%
passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years
TENT · 256 students
71%
Harder than 71% of courses at basic level
Compared with 874 courses at the same level, ordinary exams over the last three academic years. 107 students.
Exam
TENT Examination
- VG
- G
- U
Ordinary exams
68% passed · 256 students
- 77%56
- 53%51
- 64%47
- 72%58
- 73%44
Re-exams
52% passed · 106 students
- 22%9
- 47%15
- 60%10
- 50%20
- 64%14
- 50%6
- 54%13
- 50%6
- 62%13
- Pass the re-exam: 52% (106 students), compared with 68% (256 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get VG: 20% (362 students)
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Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Hand-in or lab
PROJ Project
- G
Main rounds
100% passed · 239 students
- 100%51
- 100%48
- 100%37
- 100%53
- 100%50
Later rounds
No sittings with at least 5 students.
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About the course
Aim
On completion of the course, the student should be able to: - account for the parts of micro and welfare theory that socioeconomic profitability calculations are based on, - account for the use of socioeconomic profitability calculations in practice, - critically review and be able to carry out a socioeconomic profitability calculation, - apply methods for estimating benefits and cost items for effects, in cases both with and without a market price, - analyse the problems and weaknesses that may be associated with socioeconomic profitability calculations.
Content
The course covers basic theory and realia about: - Welfare theory background - Procedures for performing socioeconomic calculations in theory and practice - Valuation of marketed goods and services in perfect markets and in cases of market imperfections or taxes/grants. - Effects on secondary markets and indirect effects - Discounting, time horizon, risk and uncertainty - Methods for evaluating utility and costs when there are no market prices available i.e. revealed preferences methods and stated preferences methods, respectively - Empirical applications within different fields - Issues and limitations of socioeconomic profitability calculations.
- Examiner
- Pernilla Ivehammar
- Main field of study
- Nationalekonomi