How Should Benefits and Costs Be Discounted in an Intergenerational Context?
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- Richard S. J. Tol & Kenneth J. Arrow & Maureen L. Cropper & Christian Gollier & Ben Groom & Geoffrey M. Heal & Richard G. Newell & William D. Nordhaus & Robert S. Pindyck & William A. Pizer & Paul R. , 2013. "How Should Benefits and Costs Be Discounted in an Intergenerational Context?," Working Paper Series 5613, Department of Economics, University of Sussex Business School.
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discount rate; uncertainty; declining discount rate; cost-benefit analysis;All these keywords.
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- D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENE-2012-11-03 (Energy Economics)
- NEP-PPM-2012-11-03 (Project, Program & Portfolio Management)
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