A marginal cost of funds approach to multi-period public project evaluation: Implications for the social discount rate

Journal of Public Economics

Volumn 87, Issue 7-8, 2003, Pages 1707-1718

  Liu, Liqun ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Marginal cost of funds; Public project evaluation; Social discount rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042916379     PISSN: 00472727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(01)00179-7     Document Type: Article

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