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Cost-effectiveness of artificial intelligence interventions for musculoskeletal disorders of the spine: a systematic review. [PDF]

open access: yesRheumatol Int
Gebrye T   +7 more
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The Discount Rate

2017
The most important price in any CBA in the public domain is invariably the discount rate that is used. For in virtually any CBA in the public sphere, the costs and benefits involved do not usually accrue instantaneously at the point in time at which a particular project in question is carried out. They are usually spread over many years.
W. Beckerman
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Aggregate Social Discount Rate Derived from Individual Discount Rates

open access: yesManagement Science, 2002
In the economic evaluation of large public-sector projects, an aggregate social discount rate may be used in present worth comparison of alternatives. This paper uses the assumptions that individual discount rates are constant over time and approximately Normally distributed across the affected population, with mean μ and variance σ2, to derive an ...
Kenneth F. Reinschmidt
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Use of the consumption discount rate for public policy over the distant future

, 2021
The choice of discount rate has a significant impact on net benefit estimates when costs today have benefits over long time horizons. Standard U.S. government practice for cost–benefit analysis is to bound such analysis using two alternative rates. These
Qingran Li, W. Pizer
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Subjective Cash Flow and Discount Rate Expectations

Journal of Finance, 2020
Why do stock prices vary? Using survey forecasts, we find that cash flow growth expectations explain most movements in the S&P 500 price-dividend and price-earnings ratios, accounting for at least 93% and 63% of their variation. These expectations comove
O R.Dela, S. Myers
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The overall discount rate

Behavioural Processes, 2019
Discounting refers to the way in which the value of an outcome depends on the delay until it is obtained. If an organism's discount function is known, then its rate of discounting at any delay can be found. If the function is not known, the normalised area under an estimate of the discount function has been used as a measure that summarises the ...
Houston, Alexander J.H.   +1 more
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Estimation of a social discount rate for Turkey

Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2019
Cost-benefit analysis is probably the most comprehensive method of economic evaluation for public projects. Social discount rate, which makes it possible to compare the social benefits and costs extended over a period of time, has a key role in the ...
Hale Akbulut, E. Seçilmiş
semanticscholar   +1 more source

It's time to reconsider the three percent discount rate.

Value in Health
OBJECTIVES Health technology assessment (HTA) guidance often recommends a 3 percent real annual discount rate, the appropriateness of which has received limited attention. This paper seeks to identify an appropriate rate for high-income countries because
Joshua T. Cohen
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Discount Rate and Wealth

Journal of Political Economy, 1981
In a recent issue of thisJournal, Mohabbat and Simos (1978) provided estimates of the rate of discount using Kendrick's (1976) series of total private wealth. Since Kendrick also provides estimates of the division of total wealth between human, Wh, and nonhuman, W,, wealth, it should be of interest to investigate how the discount rates differ between ...
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On the "Environmental" Discount Rate

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1994
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