Issues in the Application of Cost-Benefit Analysis to
构建了一个理论框架，用于评估石油进口发展中国家的能源项目收益与成本，探讨了能源依赖、外部性、资源定价、项目多样化等关键问题，对从事能源政策与项目评估的经济学者有参考价值。
This paper develops a theoretical framework to evaluate the benefits and costs of energy projects in oil-importing developing countries. This is used to address various questions: How should the problems of energy dependency and vulnerability be reflected in a project appraisal? Are there externalities not captured in the market price of the resource? Should royalty values be included in cost-benefit calculations? Why do the real prices of exhaustible resources rise over time? Should several energy-development projects be done simultaneously? What are the true costs of stock piling oil? Is there a need for coordinating information gathering and project diversification across countries? Copyright 1987 by Royal Economic Society.