A social discount rate for the US

International Research Journal of Finance and Economics

Volumn 1, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 203-208

  Azar, Samih Antoine ^a  

^a HAIGAZIAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Coefficient of relative risk aversion; Debt service ratio; Elasticity of marginal utility; Home mortgages; Maximization of future consumption; Monte carlo simulation; Portfolio of one risky and one risk less asset; Public capital budget; Rate of time preference; Social discount rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649122855     PISSN: 14502887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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