discounting environment consumption with an environmental discount rate instead of a consumption discount rate that is usually … used in cost-benefit analysis. The present study clarifies that whether or not this dual-rate discounting approach succeeds …

suggests discounting environmental quality at a lower discount rate than the standard consumption discount rate. Recent …

suggests discounting environmental quality at a lower discount rate than the standard consumption discount rate. Recent …

use a special intergenerational discounting technique which actually takes into account intergenerational peculiarities in … with a conventional discounting method. By applying this discounting technique sustainable growth paths of all economic …

Is discounting of future instantaneous utilities consistent with altruism towards future selves? More precisely, can …-utility discounting. None of the usual discount functions satisfy all desiderata, but we propose a simple class of discount functions …

We investigate the systematic intergenerational discounting of climate policy on basis of the neo-classical benefit …-cost analysis. Reference point is the Ramsey-rule which results from optimal growth theory. The agents live infinitely long. This … of human beings, a realistic discounting method would be to use an OLG-model. This method allows each living generation …

assumption of (intertemporal) risk neutrality reduces the growth effect in social discounting and significantly amplifies the …

possibly millennia to the future. To reconcile the discounting of such far-distant impacts and realism of the shorter …