While you can establish the value of many goods by offering them for sale, the contingent valuation method represents another method of establishing value. This method is especially useful for ...

Bid-ask spreads have recently been a sticking point in oil and gas deals. Sellers may feel optimistic on commodity prices or future asset performance, but buyers may be cautious, or even pessimistic, ...

Contingent valuation is now the most widely use method for valuing non- marketed goods in cost-benefit analysis. Yet, despite the fact that many externalities manifest themselves as costs to some and ...

Companies continually face risks, and prudent companies set aside contingency reserves to cover any costs associated with those risks. Yet when a company isn't certain whether a given event is going ...

The Dominican Republic has a national system of protected areas integrated for 128 conservation units, covering a land area of 1.2 million hectares, representing around one-quarter of the country's ...

Accounting for default risk in the valuation of financial derivatives has become increasingly important, especially since the 2007–8 financial crisis. Under some assumptions, the valuation of ...