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A note on discounting and the social time preference rate

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John Creedy () (University of Melbourne)

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This paper examines the discounting of money values in social evaluations using a social time preference rate (defined as the sum of a pure time preference rate and the product of the elasticity of marginal valuation and a growth rate). It is shown that this procedure can give a different ranking of alternative streams compared with the direct use of the pure time preference rate to discount ‘social welfare’ in each period (where social welfare is a - usually isoelastic - function of money values).

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Article provided by The Centre for Labour Market Research (CLMR), Curtin Business School in its journal Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE).

Volume (Year): 11 (2008)
Issue (Month): 3 (September)
Pages: 249-255
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Handle: RePEc:ozl:journl:v:11:y:2008:i:3:p:249-255

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Keywords: Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis Intertemporal Choice and Growth: General General Welfare;

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D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
D90 - Microeconomics - - Intertemporal Choice and Growth - - - General
I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - General Welfare

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