Do economic theories that underlie discounting have specific implications for program
evaluation in health? In this study, both the contemporary practice and the theoretical …

A major reason the quality of cost‐benefit analysis (CBA) varies widely is inconsistent use of
the social discount rate (SDR). This article offers guidance about the choice of the SDR …

The role of natural resources in regional development is the subject of a debate between
dependency theorists, who argue that natural resources impede development, and …

Recent interim guidelines of the Treasury Board Secretariat (2007) recommend a social
discount rate (SDR) of 8 percent. This paper argues that this value is based on an …

The Academy in Crisis is a provocative contribution to an important debate.... The costs of
goverment support for American universities are not negligible. They include stress on some …

The social or economic discount rate is the threshold rate used to calculate the net present
value of an investment project, a program, or a regulatory intervention to see whether the …

This paper analyses issues in resource rent through a case study of the Canadian coal
industry. A model of the coal industry is constructed to estimate the magnitude of rent and …

ans ce texte, nous examinons le rendement monetaire, brut et net d'impots, de la scolarit6
universitaire au Canada et les couts prives et publics associes a celle-ci. Ce rendement est …

This article applies cost‐benefit analysis to the Canadian Pacific commercial salmon fishery.
It demonstrates that government policies to preserve the fishery have resulted in higher net …

The importance of energy to the functioning of any economy has meant that energy
industries are amongst the most regulated of industries. What might appear to be purely …