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Uncertainty of capital productivity and declining discount rates

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  • Shou Chen
  • Richard Fu
  • Lei Wedge
  • Ziran Zou

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This paper considers the problem of instantaneous certainty-equivalent (ICE) discountrate when future return on capital is uncertain. We show that the ICE discount rate equals the expected return under atransformed risk-adjusted probability measure. Our approach allows us to analyze theICE discount rate regardless of the distribution of future return on capital. We provethat the ICE discount rate decreases as the delay time or the coefficient of relative riskaversion increases in a general setting. Our results lend further supports to adopting thedeclining discount rate (DDR) schedule for long-range projects with uncertain futurereturns on capital.

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  • Shou Chen & Richard Fu & Lei Wedge & Ziran Zou, 2019. "Uncertainty of capital productivity and declining discount rates," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(21), pages 1779-1784, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:26:y:2019:i:21:p:1779-1784
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2019.1597251
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    1. Luo, Lanlan & Zou, Ziran & Chen, Shou, 2021. "Discounting for public-private partnership projects in China," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 98(C), pages 218-226.

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