ECON346-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025

Economics Cost-Benefit Analysis

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

This course provides you with the conceptual foundations and practical knowledge you will need to read and understand CBA reports, conduct a CBA, and to be a thoughtful consumer of policy research. An important part of the course is learning different economic methods to calculate and then estimate values of costs and benefits. The course draws on a mixture of economic theory and real-life case studies to examine both the theoretical and practical issues involved in CBA. Students also learn about the method of cultural impact assessment and its relationship to cost-benefit analysis.

Prerequisites

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 09:00 - 10:00 A6 Lecture Theatre
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Lecture B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Friday 11:00 - 12:00 F1 Lectorial
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Lecture C
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00 Rehua 003 Music
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Tutorial A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 09:00 - 10:00 Rehua 429
3 Mar - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
02 Tuesday 09:00 - 10:00 Rehua 429
3 Mar - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
03 Wednesday 15:00 - 16:00 Rehua 429
3 Mar - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
04 Thursday 14:00 - 15:00 James Logie 105
3 Mar - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
05 Monday 14:00 - 15:00 Jack Erskine 445
3 Mar - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun

Course Coordinator

Philip Gunby

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Assignment 10%
CBA project ex-post analysis 25%
Tutorial discussion participation 15%
Final Exam 50%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $946.00

International fee $4,363.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Department of Economics and Finance .

All ECON346 Occurrences

  • ECON346-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025