Guest Lecture: Dr George Argyrous - A Review of Government Cost-Benefit Analysis Guidelines
Page updated Feb 11, 2013
Event Details
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| Location | Level 5, The Treasury, 1 The Terrace |
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The Treasury is pleased to sponsor the following Treasury Guest Lecture by Dr George Argyrous.
Documents
Presentation material for Dr George Argyrous's lecture 'A Review of Government Cost-Benefit Analysis Guidelines'.
| Date | Created by | Documents | Download |
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| 17 Jan 2013 |
The Treasury | TGLS - Dr George Argyrous |
tgls-argyrous.pdf (39 KB) |
| 8 Feb 2013 |
The Treasury | CBA guidelines in Australia and NZ - Dr George Argyrous |
tgls-argurous-slides.pdf (397 KB) |
Abstract
A number of government in Australia and New Zealand have developed guidelines for public sector managers to conduct cost-benefit analysis. These guidelines, while developed with reference with each other, differ on some fundamental issues. Four major differences emerge from a review of these guidelines: the choice of discount rate, the treatment of qualitative costs and benefits, the way in which distributional considerations are to be taken into account, and the rule to use in selecting among options where benefits exceed costs.
Bio
Dr Argyrous is a Senior Lecturer at ANZSOG on secondment from the School of Social Sciences and International Studies at The University of New South Wales (UNSW), where he has taught political economy, research methods and statistics since 1992, publishing many articles on the use and abuse of research. He is also the author of the popular international text, Statistics for research. Dr Argyrous has also acted as a consultant to many private and public sector organisations, including the Australian Broadcasting Authority, Optus, the City of Sydney, and the New South Wales Department of Education, on a range of research projects, as well as providing training in research methods to the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). In January 2011, Dr Argyrous joined the ANZSOG academic faculty as ANZSOG Senior Lecturer in Evidence-Based Decision-Making.
