Empirical and public choice evidence for hyperbolic social discount rates and the implications for intergenerational discounting

Environmental & Resource Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 413-423

  Henderson, Norman ^a   Bateman, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; hyperbolic discounting; intergenerational discounting; social discount rate

Indexed keywords

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISCOUNT RATE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; HYPERBOLIC BEHAVIOUR; INTER-GENERATIONAL DISCOUNT;

EID: 0029507569     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: 15731502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00691577     Document Type: Article

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