Economic Investment Appraisal -- Possible Project Topics
Submit a two-page proposal -- who? what? importance? how? data? -- Proposal not assessed.
Note: the term project is an exercise -- an opportunity for you to demonstrate an ability to apply some (but not all) of the tools from class; the final numbers are not as important as how you derive them. (The real world is not as cut-and-dried as classroom exercises.)
Try to get firm figures for at least one side of the costs and benefits; then use this as a benchmark to argue whether the project is NPV-positive or -negative from a CBA perspective.
| mass events | sporting--Olympics, Grand Prix, World Cup culture--Three Tenors, biennale, opera, etc |
| local developments | industrial works retail malls mines factory closures |
| new regulation of | road transport--speed limits, mandatory GPS medical services--advertising, insurance |
| new taxes on | congestion toll roads |
| education | MBA exchange |
| social costs of disease | AIDS hep C AFP? |
| sporting code | regulation -- draft, salary caps team location |
| infrastructure location | airport wind farm dam |
| new transport | roads bridges transport modes -- the monorail, the VFT |
| new technology | supermarket barcodes |
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Last Updated 18 October 2006 Robert Marks, bobm@agsm.edu.au