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Consumption inequality and discount rate heterogeneity [PDF]
Although standard incomplete market models can account for the magnitude of the rise in consumption inequality over the life cycle, they generate unrealistically concave age profiles of consumption inequality and unrealistically less wealth inequality ...
Sun, Gang
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A time preference measure of the social discount rate for Iran
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
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An Estimation of Social Discount Rate Based on Hazard Rate for Iran and Selected countries [PDF]
Social discount rate is an important variable for the Cost-Benefit analysis. Commonly used discount factor in applied works is exponential discount factor.
Ghahraman Abdoli, Hassan Heydari
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Measuring Impatience in Intertemporal Choice. [PDF]
In general terms, decreasing impatience means decreasing discount rates. This property has been usually referred to as hyperbolic discounting, although there are other discount functions which also exhibit decreasing discount rates. This paper focuses on
Salvador Cruz Rambaud +1 more
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Attractiveness of discount rate versus limited quantity: The moderating effect of temporal distance [PDF]
Purpose - This paper aims to examine how the temporal distance can influence the effect of the scarcity message. To demonstrate this effect, the authors use the limited-quantity flash sales and compare two types of mixed promotion method comprising ...
Hye-Kyung Park +2 more
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Government often faces decisions, which concern choosing between projects carrying different risk level and timing of cash flows. For calculating government real estate investment discount rate, we can apply social opportunity cost approach and ...
Priit Sander, Oliver Lukason, Kaia Kask
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Time Horizon and the Discount Rate [PDF]
We discuss the selection of the socially efficient discount rate for public investment projects that entail costs and benefits in the far distant future. We show that the discount rate should be a decreasing function of time horizon under some specific restrictions on the distribution of uncertain growth and on preferences.
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Simulation of Levelized Costs of Electricity Considering Externalities
This research presents long-term projects. Applies stochastic models using Monte Carlo simulation to identify the impact that changes have in the input parameters on the output variable (LCOEE).
Maria del Carmen Gomez-Rios +1 more
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THE SECULAR INFLUENCE OF THE RATE OF REFERENCE ON THE ECONOMIC POLICIES [PDF]
Having as starting point Radu Stoenescu’s book with respect to discount, and the difficulty in defining discount, we pursue to clarify this category and other associated ones, such as reference rate, discount rate, re-discount and its rate, in a ...
Emilian M.DOBRESCU
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Domain-specific temporal discounting and temptation [PDF]
In this investigation, we test whether temporal discounting is domain-specific (i.e., compared to other people, can an individual have a relatively high discount rate for one type of reward but a relatively low discount rate for another?), and we examine
Eli Tsukayama, Angela Lee Duckworth
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