Pricing the planet's future : the economics of discounting in an uncertain world /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gollier, Christian
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2013]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Three ways to determine the discount rate
  • The Ramsey Rule
  • Extending the Ramsey Rule to an uncertain economic growth
  • Random walk and mean-reversion
  • Markov switches and extreme events
  • Parametric uncertainty and fat tails
  • The Weitzman argument
  • A theory of the decreasing term structure of discount rates
  • Inequalities
  • Discounting non-monetary benefits
  • Alternative decision criteria
  • Evaluation of risky projects
  • The option value of uncertain projects
  • Evaluation of non-marginal projects.