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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.
144 months ago

Using a zero-discount rate could help choose better projects and help get to net zero carbon

World Bank Blogs
The authors of this blog provide strong reasons why a rate of zero is appropriate for discounting costs and benefits of most investment projects.
32 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.
7 months ago

How Should Benefits and Costs Be Discounted in an Intergenerational Context?

Resources Magazine
Because the benefits of reduced greenhouse gas emissions last for centuries while many mitigation costs are borne today, climate change has...
135 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.
92 months ago

Discount rates rise yet again at private colleges and universities

Inside Higher Ed
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100 months ago

When the Fed announces a new discount rate decision, who makes the decision? Do they use the same information and research that are used by the Federal Open Market Committee to set the target for the federal funds rate?

San Francisco Fed
The discount rate is the interest rate that an eligible depository institution is charged to borrow funds, typically for a short period, directly from a...
194 months ago

Chicago and NY Fed directors favored discount rate cut in July

Reuters
Members of the boards of directors overseeing the Chicago and New York Federal Reserve banks voted in favor of lowering by a quarter...
1 month 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...
17 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.
14 months ago