Propuestas para la determinación de la tasa social de descuento: una revisión analítica
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Abstract
In this paper I examine the concept of discount and its rationale, and the way in which it is used when evaluating public projects, particularly in those projects generating negative effects on the environment and natural resources. In addition, I establish some theoretical justifyings for discounts from the perspective of economic models of maximizing social welfare. Said this, I analyze two proposals within economic theory: i) social rate of intertemporal consumer preference, based on the temporal preference rate, and, ii) cost of social oportunity of capital, based on its marginal productivity. Moreover, the paper reviews some practical proposals which have been of late established as alternatives to the above mentioned in the first two paragraphs. Nonetheless, the article focuses on theoretical methods proposed for determining the social rate of discount and in the various criticisms raised against each one of these two proposals.References
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Bohm-Bawerk, E., (1959), The Positive Theory of Capital, South Holland, Libertian Press.
Boscolo, Marco et al, (1998), Discounting Cost and Benefits in Carbón Secuestration Projects, Development Discussion Paper No. 638, Harvard Institute for International Development, Harvard University.
Bradford, D., (1975), "Constraints on Government Investment Opportunities and the Choice of the Discount Rate", American Economic Review, No. 60, pp. 364-378.
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CEDE, (1993), Determinación de la Tasa de Descuento Social para Colombia, Universidad de los Andes.
Cline, W. R., (1992), The Economics of Global Warming, Institute for International Economics, Washington D. C, USA.
Correa Restrepo, Francisco, (1999), "Tasa Social de Descuento", Notas del Curso de Evaluación Socioeconómica de Proyectos, Universidad EAFIT, documento mimeo.
Dasgupta, Partha, (1982), "Resource Depletion, Research and Development and the Social Rate of Discount", in R. C. Lind (editor), Discounting for time and risk in energy policy, Baltimore, Jhon Hopkins Press.
Dinwiddy, Caroline, Teal, Francis, (1996), Principies of cost-benefit analysis for developing countries, Great Britain, Cambridge University Press.
Elster, John, (1983), Studies in the Suversion of Rationality, Sour Grapes, Cambridge University Press.
Feldstein, Martin, (1972), "The Inadequacy of Weighted Discount Rates", In Richard Layard, editor, Cost Benefit Analysis, United Kingdom Harmondsworth, Penguin.
González, Jorge Iván, Pecha, Arsenio, (2000), "Tasa de preferencia intertemporal, equilibrio y estabilidad en los modelos de crecimiento neoclásico", Cuadernos de Economía, No. 32.
Hicks, John, (1939), Valor y Capital, México, reimpresión del Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1989.
Kula, E., (1992), Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment, New York, Chapman & Hall.
Lind, R., Editor, (1982), Discounting for time and Risk in energy policy, Washington, Resources For the future.
Markandaya, Añil, Pearce, David, (1991), "Development, the environment and the social rate of discount", The World Bank Research Observer, Washington, Vol. 6, pp. 137-152.
Markandaya, Añil, Pearce, David, (1988), "Environmental Considerations and the Choice of the Discount Rate in developing Countries", The World Bank, Environment Department Washington, Working Paper No. 3.
Mokate, Karen, Castro, Raúl, (1998), Evaluación económica y social de proyectos, Bogotá D. C, Ediciones Uniandes.
Nordhaus, William, (1994), "The cost of Slowing Climate Change: ASurvey", The Energy Journal, Vol 12, No.l, p. 38.
Parfit, Derek, (1983), "Energy policy and further future: the social discount rate", in: Mc lean, D. And Brown, R, editors, Energy and the Future, Totowa N. I. Rowman and Littlefield.
Pearce, David, (1993), Economic Valúes and the Natural World, Cambridge, The MIT Press.
Shackle, George, (1972), Epistemics and Economics, A critique of Economic Doctrines, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, reimpreso porTransaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Squire, Lyn, Van der Tak, Hermán, (1977), Análisis Económico de Proyectos, Madrid, Banco Mundial, Editorial Tecnos.
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Correa Restrepo, F. J. (2015). Propuestas para la determinación de la tasa social de descuento: una revisión analítica. Semestre Económico, 6(11). Retrieved from https://revistas.udem.edu.co/index.php/economico/article/view/1374
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