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The Social Discount Rate [PDF]
Journal of Political Economy, 2001 What discount rate should be applied to social investments? It is standard to use the market interest rate, thereby respecting private preferences. We show that application of this “revealed preference” criterion rests on faith, not on logic. It is justified only if preferences over all choices, including past choices, are time invariant.
Andrew Caplin, John Leahy
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Individual differences in discount rate are associated with demand for self-administered cocaine, but not sucrose. [PDF]
Addict Biol, 2013 Koffarnus MN, Woods JH.
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Individual Discount Rates: A Meta-Analysis of Experimental Evidence
Experimental Economics, 2021 Tomáš Havránek +2 more
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SOCIAL DISCOUNT RATE: ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY [PDF]
Baltic Journal of Economic Studies, 2018 The purpose of the paper is to investigate the assessment methods of social discount rate, to determine its calculation algorithm and to substantiate applied aspects relatively implementation of one or another method during cash flow discounting in ...
Volodymyr Lipkan +2 more
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Declining Discount Rates [PDF]
American Economic Review, 2014 We ask whether the US government should replace its current discounting practices with a declining discount rate schedule, as the United Kingdom and France have done, or continue to discount the future at a constant exponential rate. We present the theoretical basis for a declining discount rate (DDR) schedule, but focus on how, in practice, a DDR ...
Cropper, Maureen L. +3 more
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Thermodynamic Approach to the Discount Rate and Discounted Cash Flow Method
Risks, 2023 Current theories of the discount rate have a theoretical basis focused on risk; risk-free rate and risk premium. The basic component of the discount rate, the risk-free rate as purely empirical has a natural infirmity which consequently weakens the final
Mieczysław Dobija, Jurij Renkas
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 Previous research has demonstrated associations between delay discount rate and engagement in several health behaviors. The delay discount rate is also inversely associated with social discount rates, a putative measure for sharing.
Natashia Bibriescas +4 more
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The problem of lending to agricultural enterprises in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 The main obstacle to the implementation of lending to agricultural enterprises is the high cost of credit. In our opinion, an adequate state agricultural policy should increase the interest of commercial banks in providing loans.
Yekimov Sergey +4 more
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Cost-benefit analysis in a climate of change: setting social discount rates in the case of Ireland
Green Finance, 2021 The global practice of Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA), to analyse the welfare impacts of public investments, has undergone profound changes in recent years. The reforms in general practice have primarily been driven by the discussions of the implications of
Tadhg O'Mahony
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Declining Discount Rates for Energy Policy Investments in CEE EU Member Countries
Energies, 2022 Energy policy investments are usually evaluated using a cost-benefit analysis (CBA), which requires an estimation of the social discount rate (SDR). The choice of SDR can be crucial for the outcome of the appraisal, as energy-related investments generate
Rafał Buła, Monika Foltyn-Zarychta
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