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Discount rates: A boring thing you should know about (with otters!)
Grist.org
You need to understand what economists call “discount rates,” key parameters in the economic models used to assess climate policy costs.
145 months ago
Valuing the Future: Revision to the Social Discount Rate Means Appropriately Assessing Benefits and Costs
The White House (.gov)
The recommended annual discount rate is calculated to be 2 percent, compared to the dual rates of 3 and 7 percent set out in the prior Circular A-4.
8 months ago
How Should Benefits and Costs Be Discounted in an Intergenerational Context?
Resources Magazine
There are two rationales for discounting future benefits—one based on consumption and the other on investment...
136 months ago
The surprisingly inexpensive cost of state-driven emission control strategies
Nature
Traditionally, analysis of the costs of cutting greenhouse gas emissions has assumed that governments would implement idealized,...
38 months ago
The Discount Rate for the Social Cost of Carbon
The Regulatory Review
A publication of the Penn Program on Regulation. Opinion | Environment | Jan 18, 2017 The Discount Rate for the Social Cost of Carbon.
93 months ago
Discount rates rise yet again at private colleges and universities
Inside Higher Ed
The average institutional tuition discount rate rose to an estimated 48.6 percent for first-time, full-time freshmen in 2015-16.
101 months ago
Federal Economists Are Still Getting The Discount Rate Wrong
Forbes
The CEA is applying a 2 percent consumption discount rate, which is a clear misapplication of economic principles.
3 months ago
The one number that determines how today’s policies will affect our grandchildren
Vox
The discount rate basically tells us how to value the future versus the present — and thus has tremendous implications for the policies we enact...
19 months ago
What is the Social Discount Rate? MIT Economists Weigh In
MIT Sloan
The discount rate used by policy analysts to translate estimates of future costs and benefits into present values.
15 months ago
Data Spotlight: Trends in discount points amid rising interest rates
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (.gov)
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is monitoring increases in borrowers paying discount points, as well as increases to the amount borrowers are...
7 months ago