This paper proposes that there exist situations when two or more investors who want to invest equal amounts in different, but successive periods, would be better off to "collude" and invest for the whole period to take advantage of an upward slopping yield curve. The goal of this paper is to...

This paper characterizes the long term social discount rate (SDR) in terms of indices of variation and identifies a class of discount functions that assign weight to the distant future in terms of the asymptotes of their hazard rates. Let A(t) be a discount function supported on [0, +∞[, whose...