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2002
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Nota di Lavoro No. 71.2002
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Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Zusammenfassung: 
The aim of this paper is to present an alternative methodology for discounting far distant future externalities genereted by an investment project: time-declining discount rates. First I present the experimental evidence on individuals' time-inconsistency. Second I consider the theoretical justification for using hyperbolic discounting in a simple uncertainty framework where marginal social utility is discounted hyperbolically if the investing Government believes that social wealth might increase or decrease over future period with a small probability that wealth will deteriorate below its current level.
Schlagwörter: 
Environmental effects
project appraisal
social discounting
JEL: 
Q01
D61
H5
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