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Economics and Philosophy, 1989
The social discount rate – the rate at which future benefit flows from government investment are discounted to present value – has been a frequent subject of technical debate among professional economists. From a broader perspective, however, the selection of an appropriate rate enjoins consideration of questions that define the very contours of our ...
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The social discount rate – the rate at which future benefit flows from government investment are discounted to present value – has been a frequent subject of technical debate among professional economists. From a broader perspective, however, the selection of an appropriate rate enjoins consideration of questions that define the very contours of our ...
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
A social time preference methodology derived from Feldstein (1965) is applied to calculate social discount rates across 167 countries and across time from 2005-2050 for a country case (Brazil). This attempt seeks to compute comparable figures from a homogeneous dataset and provides a ready-to-use framework for computing the social discount rate. Social
Joice Valentim, Mauricio Prado
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A social time preference methodology derived from Feldstein (1965) is applied to calculate social discount rates across 167 countries and across time from 2005-2050 for a country case (Brazil). This attempt seeks to compute comparable figures from a homogeneous dataset and provides a ready-to-use framework for computing the social discount rate. Social
Joice Valentim, Mauricio Prado
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Social Discounting: Preference Reversals and Links with Temporal Discounting
Review of Behavioral Economics, 2020The purpose of this study is twofold. First, we test the hypothesis that the preference reversal occurs in social discounting. Second, we investigate the relationship between social discounting and temporal discounting. In the conducted experiments, participants made hypothetical choices between a smaller monetary reward for a less socially distant ...
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Adaptive Discount Allocation in Social Networks
Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing, 2017It has been reported that 40% of consumers will share an email offer with their friend and 28% of consumers will share deals via social media platforms. This motivates us to study the influence maximization discount allocation problem: given a social network and a limited marketing budget, which set of initial users should be selected to receive the ...
Jing Yuan 0002, Shaojie Tang 0001
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On the Social Rate of Discount
1974Few topics in our discipline rival the social rate of discount as a subject exhibiting simultaneously a very considerable degree of knowledge and a very substantial level of ignorance. Economists understand thoroughly just what this variable should measure: the opportunity cost of postponement of receipt of any benefit yielded by a public investment ...
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Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 1992
Abstract: Recently the discount rate recommended by Treasury Board Canada for use in program evaluations and project assessments has been challenged. This article reviews the theory and evidence supporting various estimates of the Canadian discount rate, and includes a comparison of rates used by the U.S. government and the World Bank.
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Abstract: Recently the discount rate recommended by Treasury Board Canada for use in program evaluations and project assessments has been challenged. This article reviews the theory and evidence supporting various estimates of the Canadian discount rate, and includes a comparison of rates used by the U.S. government and the World Bank.
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Social discounting: The effect of outcome uncertainty
Behavioural Processes, 2010The purpose of the study was to determine the lowest hypothetical amount a participant would keep for himself/herself, preferring it over a reward that he/she would have shared with another individual representing various levels of past reciprocation. Other manipulated aspects were: emotional closeness of the receiver (close vs.
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Intergenerational justice and the social discount rate
Theory and Decision, 1974This paper applies the Harsanyi social welfare function to the problem of determining the social discount rate. It thus views the social discount question as one of justice between generations under conditions of individual uncertainty over position, rather than as one generation's paternalism or altruism for the next generation.
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1971
Whether the NPV, IRR or TV approach is adopted, a rate of discount (or rate of compound in the TV case) is required. There is a presumption that all benefits and costs, regardless of their nature, are to be discounted at the same rate, and that this rate is constant over time.
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Whether the NPV, IRR or TV approach is adopted, a rate of discount (or rate of compound in the TV case) is required. There is a presumption that all benefits and costs, regardless of their nature, are to be discounted at the same rate, and that this rate is constant over time.
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