Determining the Discount Rate for Government Projects
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Keywords
Discount rate; Social opportunity cost; Social rate of time preference;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H4 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods
- H43 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate
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