Third Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis: European Conference 2022

The SBCA-EC2022 will be held in Paris on the PSE Campus, on November 3-4 2022.

The Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis (SBCA) is an international group of practitioners, academics and others who are working to improve the theory and application of the tools of benefit cost analysis (BCA). We welcome submissions that support the enhanced use of such analysis to promote evidence-based decision making.

Both theoretical and empirical contributions (based on the various methods used to support public sector decision making, including Benefit-Cost Analysis (BCA), cost analysis, cost effectiveness analysis, risk-benefit analysis, and damage assessment) are welcomed.

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Submissions: Proposal, guidelines, and rules

You are invited to submit until 22 june 2022 an extended abstract (2-4 pages or 400-800 words) until that contains title, author(s), research question, methodology, expected results and references. Abstract can cover either empirical or theoretical research. You can submit more than one abstract, but the maximum number of presentations per person in parallel sessions (not including policy sessions or panels) is limited to one.

Authors will be notified by 30 july 2022 of the acceptance of their paper. To be included in the program, presenters need to be registered for the conference by  30 September 2022 (confirmation of participation); and by 20 September 2022 to benefit from early bird registration fees.

Policy session/Panel & organized session with research papers proposals

You are invited to propose a policy session or a panel. The aim of policy sessions and panels is to advance the use of benefit-cost analysis to support policy-making and to highlight current questions of major importance either in policy-making or research. The objective is to provide a forum of exchange between policy-makers and academics and the sessions/panels are expected to be of interest to a broad audience. The expected format is short presentations followed by panel/roundtable discussions, and they are expected to include 3-4 contributions.

In the case of organized sessions with research papers, the objective is to propose a coherent session made composed with 3-4 pre-selected research papers.