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DISCOUNT RATES FOR GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT PROJECTS: THE ECONOMIC LOGIC BEHIND OMB CIRCULAR A-94

 

作者: MATTHEWS. GOLDBERG,  

 

期刊: The Engineering Economist  (Taylor Available online 1998)
卷期: Volume 43, issue 4  

页码: 290-307

 

ISSN:0013-791X

 

年代: 1998

 

DOI:10.1080/00137919808903201

 

出版商: Taylor & Francis Group

 

数据来源: Taylor

 

摘要:

This paper examines U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-94, which requires that costs and benefits of government programs be discounted at the U.S. Treasury borrowing rate on bonds of maturity equal to the period of analysis. It is shown that, in a 2-period problem, discounting at the Treasury rate always leads to the correct investment decision. That is, the winning project may always be transformed, via market transactions, into one that dominates the losing project. Some anomalies occur when evaluating projects of longer duration, but these anomalies are probably not important empirically. Finally, the dominating project may be computed using linear programming.

 

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