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More appropriate discounting: the rate of social time preference and the value of the social discount rate [PDF]
Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2013 Recently, a number of authors, including Burgess and Zerbe, have recommended the use of a real social discount rate (SDR) in the range of 6–8% in benefit-cost analysis (BCA) of public projects. They derive this rate based on the social opportunity cost of capital (SOC) method.
Mark A. Moore +2 more
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A social discount rate for Turkey [PDF]
Quality & Quantity, 2011 Social discount rate (SDR) is a very crucial policy parameter in public project appraisals due to its resource allocation impacts. If this rate is too high, future generations will face excess financial burden since distant cash flows will become negligible.
Halicioglu, Ferda, Karatas, Cevat
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Social discount rate: spaces for agreement
Economic Theory Bulletin, 2021 We study the problem of aggregating discounted utility preferences into a social discounted utility preference model. We use an axiom capturing a social responsibility of individuals’ attitudes to time, called consensus Pareto.
Takashi Hayashi, M. Lombardi
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High discount rates by private actors undermine climate change adaptation policies
Climate Risk Management, 2023 Adaptation requires investing now to avoid future damages, and thus adaptation is shaped by discount rates. Although the role of social discount rates in climate policy design has been well documented, the role of private discount rates has been ignored.
Francisco Alpizar +3 more
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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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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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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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