Properties of the social discount rate in a benthamite framework with heterogeneous degrees of impatience

Management Science

Volumn 54, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1822-1826

  Nocetti, Diego ^a   Jouini, Elyès ^b   Napp, Clotilde ^b,c  

^a CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DAUPHINE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; Cost benefit discounting; Hyperbolic discounting; Social discount rate

Indexed keywords

HYPERBOLIC DISCOUNTING; PUBLIC-SECTOR PROJECTS; SOCIAL DISCOUNT RATE;

COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; FORESTRY;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 61849102416     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1080.0904     Document Type: Article

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