Shadow Pricing

In a cost-benefit analysis, the assignment of a dollar value to an intangible asset or liability that cannot be sold. Shadow pricing is arbitrary; that is, because these assets and liabilities cannot be sold, and analysts must make an educated guess on their value. An example of shadow pricing occurs in the cost-benefit analysis of building a factory. The analysis must calculate the cost of blight on the neighborhood in which the factory is built. Because there is no way to put a real value on the cost of blight, shadow pricing assigns an arbitrary value to it.

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(3)For fuller analysis, including the treatment of shadow pricing and other issues beyond the scope of the present paper, see Brent 1990; Little and Mirrlees 1969, 1974; UNIDO 1973; Lal 1974.

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