Theory and Practice in the Choice of Social Discount Rate for Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Survey
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Keywords
cost-benefit analysis; discount rate; economics of climate change; project economic analysis; social discount rate;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
- D62 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Externalities
- H43 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate
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