Theory and Practice in the Choice of Social Discount Rate for Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Survey [PDF]
, 2007 The choice of an appropriate social discount rate for cost–benefit analysis of public projects has long been a contentious issue and subject to intense debate among economists.
De Guzman, Franklin +3 more
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Model‐Driven Optimization of Subcutaneous Polymer Prodrugs Achieves Cancer Remission in Mice
Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.A pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics (PK/PD) model was developed to evaluate multiple dosing regimens for subcutaneously administered water‐soluble polymer prodrug for cancer therapy. The model enabled prediction of in vivo performance and contributed to the optimization of anticancer efficacy.
Anne Rodallec +5 more
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Country Risk, Foreign Borrowing and the Social Discount Rate in an Open Developing Economy [PDF]
Most discussions on the social rate of discount have assumed that the economy under consideration is isolated from the rest of the world, and that there are no capital movements.
Sebastian Edwards
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Discount Rates for Long-Term Projects: The Cost of Capital and Social Discount Rate Compared [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014 Research on the cost of capital and on the social discount rate (SDR) has developed largely along separate paths. This paper offers an overview and comparison of both concepts. The consumption-based theory of discount rates is common to both, but there are striking differences in how the cost of capital and SDR are estimated.
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.Potato virus X is a filamentous RNA plant virus that can be engineered into a molecular tool for cancer therapy. We produced genetically‐encoded virus‐derived nanoparticles decorated with nanobodies targeting cancer cell receptors, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and human epidermal growth factor 2 (HER2).
Enrique Lozano‐Sanchez +4 more
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Determining the Discount Rate for Government Projects [PDF]
Discount rates are widely used in the public sector to assess policy proposals where costs and benefits accrue over long time periods. Socially optimal policy choices require an appropriate choice of discount rate.
Louise Young
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Bioinspired Adaptive Sensors: A Review on Current Developments in Theory and Application
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.This review comprehensively summarizes the recent progress in the design and fabrication of sensory‐adaptation‐inspired devices and highlights their valuable applications in electronic skin, wearable electronics, and machine vision. The existing challenges and future directions are addressed in aspects such as device performance optimization ...
Guodong Gong +12 more
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Moral Uncertainty Over Policy Evaluation
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2018 When performing intertemporal cost-benefit analyses of policies, both in terms of climate change and other long-term problems, the discounting problem becomes critical.
Kian Mintz-Woo
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Lifetime Uncertainty and the Optimal Replacement Rate of urban Public Pension in China [PDF]
By considering lifetime uncertainty, this paper employs an OLG model within general equilibrium framework to analyze China’s urban public pension system.
Yang, Zaigui
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Determination of the fair value of a multifunctional family farm: a case study [PDF]
, 2013 The article analyses the problems of the determination of the fair value of a multifunctional family farm using the method of discounted cash flow, presents a model of determination of the fair value of a multifunctional family farm and tests it for a ...
Aleknevičienė, Vilija +2 more
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