The welfare-maximizing discount rate in a small open economy
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Keywords
Discounting; Tax wedge; Social time preference; Social opportunity cost;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
- F41 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Open Economy Macroeconomics
- H43 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-OPM-2022-03-28 (Open Economy Macroeconomics)
- NEP-PBE-2022-03-28 (Public Economics)
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