A Mire of Discount Rates: Delaying Conservation Payment Schedules in a Choice Experiment
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DOI: 10.1007/s10640-020-00511-3
Abstract: Studies on the public’s implicit discount rate in the willingness to pay for environmental amenities have mostly employed contingent valuation surveys. We investigate respondents’ time preferences using choice experiments with four payment schedules in a… read more here.
Keywords: choice; payment schedules; conservation; payment ... See more keywords
Estimating discount rates for environmental goods: Are People’s responses inadequate to frequency of payments?
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2021.102446
Abstract: Abstract Most stated preference studies estimate discount rates using a split-sample approach. Each sample faces a different payment frequency (for instance, 1, 5, 10) together with a randomly assigned bid vector; both the frequency of… read more here.
Keywords: people responses; frequency payments; frequency; discount rate ... See more keywords
Delay Discount Rate Moderates a Physical Activity Intervention Testing Immediate Rewards
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DOI: 10.1080/08964289.2019.1570071
Abstract: Abstract Financial incentives can increase physical activity (PA), but differences in the immediacy of reward delivery and individual differences in delay discount rates (i.e., higher discount values associated with less tolerance for delayed rewards) may… read more here.
Keywords: intervention; discount; delay discount; discount rate ... See more keywords
Climate Change and Long-Run Discount Rates: Evidence from Real Estate
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DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhab032
Abstract: The optimal investment to mitigate climate change crucially depends on the discount rate used to evaluate the investment's uncertain future benefits. The appropriate discount rate is a function of the horizon over which these benefits… read more here.
Keywords: climate change; long run; real estate; discount rates ... See more keywords
Are Stocks Real Assets? Sticky Discount Rates in Stock Markets
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DOI: 10.1093/rfs/hhw072
Abstract: Local stock markets adjust sluggishly to changes in local inflation. When the local rate of inflation increases, local investors subsequently earn lower real returns on local stocks, but not on local bonds or foreign stocks,… read more here.
Keywords: discount rates; stock markets; stocks real; stock ... See more keywords
Are Discount Rates Too High? Population Health and Intergenerational Equity
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DOI: 10.1177/0272989x20979816
Abstract: Increasing attention is being paid to policy decisions in which shorter-term benefits may be eclipsed by longer-term harms, such as environmental damage. Health policy decisions have largely been spared this scrutiny, even though they too… read more here.
Keywords: rates high; discount rates; health; high population ... See more keywords
Trends in Author-Reported Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds in the United States from 1995 to 2018: Implications for Discount Rates
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DOI: 10.1177/0272989x221097106
Abstract: Background Decisions based on cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) using equal discount rates for health and cost outcomes are consistent with using a constant cost-effectiveness threshold over time. We sought to analyze trends in author-reported cost per… read more here.
Keywords: discount rates; cost; cost effectiveness; effectiveness thresholds ... See more keywords
Social Discount Rates for Seventeen Latin American Countries: Theory and Parameter Estimation
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DOI: 10.1177/1091142119890369
Abstract: This article presents new estimates of social discount rates (SDRs) for seventeen Latin American countries for use in public project evaluation. We derive the SDRs based on the social rate of time preference method and… read more here.
Keywords: seventeen latin; discount rates; american countries; latin american ... See more keywords