The social discount rate

Journal of Political Economy

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1257-1268

  Caplin, Andrew ^a   Leahy, John ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCOUNT RATE; INTEREST RATE; INVESTMENT;

EID: 12144254378     PISSN: 00223808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/424740     Document Type: Article

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