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A time preference measure of the social discount rate for Iran

open access: yesJournal of Economic Structures, 2018
Public sector projects in Iran are inefficiently carried out for reasons of mismanagement and poor prioritization. This problem may arise from the lack of a generally accepted social discount rate for project appraisal.
Arian Daneshmand   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Risk-Adjusted Discount Rate and Its Components for Onshore Wind Farms at the Feasibility Stage

open access: yesEnergies, 2021
The concept of risk is well known in the energy sector. It is normally recognized when it comes to price and cost forecasting, annual production calculation, or evaluating project lifetime.
Piotr W. Saługa   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

The role of the discount rate for emission pathways and negative emissions

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2019
The importance of the discount rate in cost-benefit analysis of long term problems, such as climate change, has been widely acknowledged. However, the choice of the discount rate is hardly discussed when translating policy targets—such as 1.5 °C and 2 °C–
Johannes Emmerling   +5 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Discount Rates [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Discount rate variation is the central organizing question of current asset pricing research. I survey facts, theories and applications. We thought returns were uncorrelated over time, so variation in price-dividend ratios was due to variation in expected cashflows. Now it seems all price-dividend variation corresponds to discount-rate variation.
John H. Cochrane
core   +3 more sources

Over-exploitation of natural resources is followed by inevitable declines in economic growth and discount rate. [PDF]

open access: yesNat Commun, 2019
A major challenge in environmental policymaking is determining whether and how fast our society should adopt sustainable management methods. These decisions may have long-lasting effects on the environment, and therefore, they depend critically on the ...
Lampert A.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Which Discount Rate for Sustainability? [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Sustainable Finance and Accounting
There is a long-standing controversy about determining the discount rate at which companies should discount the long-term benefits of sustainability investments (e.g. for climate change mitigation and adaptation). While financial capital is discounted at the standard financial discount rate, this paper argues that companies should discount social and ...
Schoenmaker, Dirk, Schramade, Willem
openaire   +3 more sources

Financing Disruptive Suppliers: Payment Advance, Timeline, and Discount Rate

open access: yesProduction and operations management, 2021
This study considers a dyadic supply chain in which a large and creditworthy buyer procures a product from a capital‐constrained supplier subject to disruption risk.
Xiao Huang
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Discounting for Energy Transition Policies—Estimation of the Social Discount Rate for Poland

open access: yesEnergies, 2021
The transition of the energy system in Poland has a long time horizon and demands a substantial investment effort supported by proper economic evaluation.
Monika Foltyn-Zarychta   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Explaining the Default Risk Premium Anomaly Using Two Beta Model [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Asset Management and Financing, 2019
Objective: Given some failures of the Capital Asset Pricing Model in explaining the default risk anomaly, some researchers have claimed the two-beta model, established by Campbell and Vulteenaho (2004), is functionally able to explain this peculiarity ...
Daryoosh Forooghi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tasa de descuento ambiental Gamma: una aplicación para Colombia [PDF]

open access: yesLecturas de Economía, 2008
The main purpose of this article is to describe and apply a methodology to estimate the discount rate on long-term projects, such as those related to environmental conservation and global climate change, for Colombia.
Francisco Correa Restrepo
doaj   +2 more sources

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