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A time preference measure of the social discount rate for Iran
Journal 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
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Intergenerational transfers and the social discount rate [PDF]
Environmental and Resource Economics, 1993 This paper investigates the relationship between intergenerational asset transfers and the choice of the discount rate for use in cost-benefit analysis in a model of a competitive overlapping generations economy constrained by a socially managed exhaustible resource.
Howarth, R.B., Norgaard, R.B.
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The Entrepreneurial Social Discount Rate: Risk Premium and Loss Aversion in New Ventures
Revista Mexicana de Economía y Finanzas Nueva Época REMEF, 2021 We derive a mathematical extension of the social discount rate (SDR) in such a way that we can valuate intergenerational startups financed with personal and government funds at the aggregate level.
David Ceballos Hornero +1 more
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The Role of Discounting in Energy Policy Investments
Energies, 2021 For informing future energy policy decisions, it is essential to choose the correct social discount rate (SDR) for ex-ante economic evaluations. Generally, costs and benefits—both economic and environmental—are weighted through a single constant discount
Gabriella Maselli, Antonio Nesticò
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Regret Now, Compensate It Later: The Benefits of Experienced Regret on Future Altruism
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 This article explores how experienced regret and relief evoked in a risky gambling task influence subsequent intertemporal pro-social behavior. We apply a dictator game experiment with delayed rewards to investigate the effect on donating behavior by ...
Teng Lu +3 more
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Measurement of Individual Time Preferences Using A Laboratory Approach [PDF]
فصلنامه پژوهشهای اقتصادی ایران, 2023 The precise measurement of individual time preferences in assessing the economic plans that individuals are involved in, in the estimation of social time preferences, in the assessment of environmental and health plans is very crucial.
Mohammad Amin Zandi
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Tasa de descuento ambiental Gamma: una aplicación para Colombia [PDF]
Lecturas 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
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Empleo, desempleo y salario real: análisis del mercado laboral de la ciudad de Medellín (1995-2006) [PDF]
Lecturas 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.
Adriana María Ochoa Yepes +1 more
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Inequality aversion, social discount, and time discount rates [PDF]
International Journal of Social Economics, 2012 PurposeThis paper aims to conduct a hypothetical dictator game with social distance and time delays using conjoint analysis.Design/methodology/approachResponses from 1,347 Japanese adults are collected through an online survey, and their responses are analyzed using a random parameter logit model.FindingsThe paper finds that social preference for the ...
Takanori Ida, Kazuhito Ogawa
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Risk-adjusted Social Discount Rates
The Energy Journal, 2022 When evaluating public and private investment projects, those that contribute more to the collective risk should be more penalized through an upward adjustment of their discount rate. This paper shows how to estimate the risk-adjusted discount rate for different projects, with applications to the electricity sector.
Cherbonnier, Frédéric +1 more
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