Discounting for Time and Risk in Energy Policy

摘要: The volume addresses the unresolved issues pertaining to choice of discount rate be used in benefit-cost evaluation public investments and policies a market economy with many distortions. It analyzes question risk discounting connection energy policy, it whether at positive implies intergenerational inequity framework is sufficiently robust as basis for choosing between alternatives that may have far-reaching consequences. practical problems associated trying estimate appropriate discount, evaluates practices within electric power industry. Separate abstracts were prepared chapters 2 4-12 selected Energy Data Base (EDB) Abstracts Policy Analysis (EAPA).