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The social rate of discount is a crucial driver of the social cost of carbon (SCC), i.e. the expected present discounted value of marginal damages resulting from emitting one ton of carbon today. Policy makers should set carbon prices to the SCC using a carbon tax or a competitive permits...
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show that the assumption of positive discounting is not always true. The presented experimental study shows how a decrease … in probability increases the chances of negative discounting. According to the results, the expected large, uncertain … in the frequency of negative discounting due to increased uncertainty. The results of the study broaden the existing …
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Firms obtain noisy estimates of investors' required rates of return (discount rates) using market-based information. Discounted-cash-flow (DCF) methods, as commonly taught in MBA courses, lead to upward-biased estimates of project values in the presence of such noise, even when cash flow and...
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