CBA Workshop Program April 25-26, 2018 Wednesday 25 april 8:30-9:30 Registration 9:30-9:40 Henrik Andersson Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) Welcome 9:30-10:30 Welcome and CBA and in Sweden (Chair: Andersson) 10:30-11:00 Coffee break 9:40-10:00 10:00-10:30 Gunnel Bångman Jan-Eric Nilsson The Swedish Administration VTI CBA and the Swedish Administration Economic analysis of investment priorities in Sweden s transport sector 11:00-12:30 Experiences of CBA in the Scandinavian countries (Chair: Andersson) 11:00-11:30 Niels Buus TOI 11:30-12:00 Gunnar Lindberg TOI 12:00-12:30 Discussion Panel: Nilsson, Buus, Lindberg CBA in the Danish transport sector CBA in the Norwegian transport sector 12:30-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15:30 Agglomeration and wider economic benefits (WEB) (Chair: Nilsson) 14:00-14:30 14:30-15:00 Jonas Eliasson Gunnar Isacsson Stockholm City Adminstration The Swedish Administration WEB in CBA: CBA of transport improvements in the presence of spillovers, matching and an income tax Recent Swedish findings on agglomeration and WEB 15:00-15:30 Discussion Open floor 15:30-16:00 Coffee break 16:00-18:00 Issues in sector CBA (Chair: Börjesson) 16:00-16:30 16:30-17:00 17:00-17:30 Ben Groom Niek Mouter Henrik Andersson London School of Economics TU Delft TSE Discounting and uncertainty New perspectives on Cost-Benefit Analysis Non-market valuation in transportation Some reflections 18:30-- Workshop buffet dinner 17:30-18:00 Discussion Open floor
Thursday 26 april 9:00-10:00 CBA in other sectors (Chair: Isacsson) 9:00-09:30 09:30-10:00 Svante Mandell Ficre Zehaie The National Institute of Economic Research Naturvårdsverket Sustainability and CBA and CEA The Swedish EPA's experiences of the use of CBA 10:00-10:30 Coffee break 10:30-11:00 Bengt Kriström SLU, Umeå CBA and the environment 10:30-12:00 The big picture of BCA, and a farewell (Chair: Haraldsson) 11:00-11:45 Peter Mackie Institute for Studies (ITS), Leeds CBA in - Some Challenges 11:45-12:00 Henrik Andersson TSE Final thougths and farewell
Short Bios Henrik Andersson is an Associate Professor at Université Toulouse 1 Capitole and researcher at Toulouse School of Economics. His research mainly concerns methodological and empirical issues of the evaluation of non-marketed goods using revealed- and stated-preference techniques, and pricing of externalities. His research covers the areas of environmental, health and transport economics. Henrik has published several scientific papers including some on the value of a statistical life, risk perception, and transportation noise. He has been involved in several international scientific conferences, either as an organizer or as a scientific committee member. Niels Buus Kristensen (Ph.D. Econ.) is head of research at TØI (Institute of Economics). He is also member of the Danish Council for Climate Change and has recently been chairman of an Expert Group on Mobility for the Future for the Danish Minister of. Previously he has been head of DTU and Chief Economist and Head of R6D in COWI. Gunnel Bångman PhD, is Economist at the Expert centre of the Swedish Administration in Borlänge. Head of the Working group for the development and administration of the ASEK Report, i.e. the Swedish Guidelines for CBA in the Sector. Jonas Eliasson is Director of the Stockholm City Administration since 2016, responsible for planning and maintaining all streets, parks, constructions and public spaces in the city. This includes short- and long-term transport planning for all transport modes, as well as planning for liveable, safe and attractive public spaces. Eliasson was professor of transport systems analysis at KTH 2007-2017, and is still active in several research projects and as main supervisor of PhD student. His research interests focus on analysis of transport project and policies, and include cost-benefit analysis, decision making in the transport sector, transport pricing in general and congestion pricing, transport modelling, public and political acceptability of transport policies, valuation of travel time and reliability and railway capacity allocation. He has worked extensively nationally and internationally with analysing, developing and applying transport policies and appraisal methodologies, often acting as expert advisor on strategic transportation issues to cities, regional and national governments, both politicians and civil servants. Eliasson has been heavily involved in the design and evaluation of the congestion pricing systems in Stockholm (in operation since 2006) and Gothenburg (since 2013). He has also chaired the national committee for analysis of the National Investment Plan, and been a member of the standing expert advisory board to the National appraisal guidelines committee. https://sites.google.com/site/jonaseliassonkth/ Ben Groom is a Professor of Environment and Development Economics. He is an applied economist whose main research focus is on intergenerational equity and social discounting for long-term public projects, such as those relating to climate change and biodiversity conservation. Ben also does empirical work and applied theory on agricultural development and adaptation to climate change, deforestation and biodiversity economics. Ben has a professional background working in environmental and development economics, having spent 2 years as an Overseas Development Institute (ODI) fellow between 1998 and 2000. Since then his work on social discounting has informed government policy guidance in the US, UK, Norway, France and the Netherlands, inter alia, and also OECD guidance on Cost Benefit Analysis for transport projects. Ben acted as a consultant for numerous international organisations, including the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the OECD and the WWF. He has also advised governments in
lower and middle-income countries, such as China, Pakistan and Bolivia, on various aspects of environmental policy. Ben is also chair of the scientific committee of the BIOECON network and coorganiser of the annual BIOECON conference. Gunnar Isacsson is economist at the Swedish Administration with a previous background as a researcher at VTI. He works, inter alia, with issues related to wider economic impacts and regional economic impacts of transport infrastructure investments. In 2016, he was involved in the extensive economic analyses of High Speed Rail in Sweden. His previous research has concerned hypothetical bias in SP-valuation, external marginal costs of traffic accidents and measurement of private and social benefits of investments in education. He holds a PhD in economics. Bengt Kriström is Professor of Resource Economics at SLU and Research Director, CERE, SLU- Umeå and Umeå University. His main research interest is applied welfare economics, in which pricing of non-market goods, green accounting and welfare analysis in equilibrium models is of primary interest. His most recent book is Cost-Benefit Analysis for Project Appraisal, Cambridge University Press, 2016 (with Per-Olov Johansson). Dr Gunnar Lindberg is since 2013 Director of the Norwegian Institute of Economics (TØI), Oslo Norway. Lindberg was previously Researcher and Research Director at Swedish National Roadand Research Institute (VTI) and has also experience from work at the European Commission and numerous international projects. Lindberg s research in transport economics has focused on external cost of transport with a special attention on traffic safety valuation and pricing and his dissertation from Orebro University presented results from experiments with pay-asyou-go and pay-as-you-speed pricing schemes. TØI is the biggest transport research environment in Norway and an internationally well-known research institute. The institute conducts multi-disciplinary research for Norwegian Ministries, Administrations, The Research council of Norway and the European Commission. TØI has a strategy for Nordic cooperation. Peter Mackie is Emeritus Professor of Studies at the Institute for Studies, University of Leeds. His research interests lie in the field of economic regulation and appraisal of transport. In the first of these areas he has worked on the economics of the bus industry including recent work on concessionary travel and on buses in the economy. In the second, economic appraisal of roads and transport policies and projects has been his main focus, including work for the World Bank, EU, national and local governments. He was a member of the UK Government s Standing Advisory Committee on Trunk Road Assessment for their three influential reports in the 1990s, was one of the academic friends of the Eddington review of UK transport infrastructure and economic performance and was recently an expert adviser to the Airports Commission investigating the case for new airport capacity in the London region. Svante Mandell is head of the environmental economics unit at the National Institute for Economic Research. A lot of his work is currently geared towards Swedish climate policy. He holds a PhD in economics. Niek Mouter is assistant professor in infrastructure policy appraisal at TU Delft, with a background in economics (MSc) and philosophy of law (LLM). He obtained his PhD for his thesis on Cost-Benefit Analysis in Practice. His current research revolves around: 1) The inclusion of equity and other ethically important considerations in the appraisal of infrastructure projects in general and Cost- Benefit Analysis in particular; 2) Improving the usability of Cost-Benefit Analysis for policy makers.
Together with researchers of VU Amsterdam and ITS Leeds he developed Participatory Value Evaluation (PVE) which is a novel method to assess costs and benefits of government projects. In a PVE, citizens choose a portfolio of policies/projects given one or more constraints (e.g. budget/sustainability target). Using these individual choices advanced behavioural choice models are estimated that subsequently form the basis for an economic evaluation of government projects. Dutch governments recently used PVE to evaluate a transport investment plan and a flood protection program. Jan-Eric Nilsson is professor of transport economics with VTI. He has been active in the transport sector for most of his professional life, initially at the Road and the Railway Administration and subsequently as a researcher. Research interests includes most issues related to both the investment in new, and pricing of existing infrastructures. More recently this has also come to include ways for designing contracts for tendered investment and maintenance activities. Ficre Zehaie is analyst at the Swedish Environmental protection Agency. Zehaie is an expert in environmental policy analysis; in particular on how policy is implemented in practice. He works with ex ante and ex post policy analysis of Swedish environmental policies and since 2011 he has been developing and integrating economic analysis in environmental policy for Swedish Government Agencies. His previous research is focused on environmental policy for different properties of environmental problems. He holds a PhD in economics with specialization in environmental economics from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
Wednesday 25 april Address: Teknikringen 10B, KTH Campus
Thursday 26 april Address: Teknikringen 76, KTH Campus