The social discount rate
Andrew Caplin and
John Leahy
No 137, Discussion Paper / Institute for Empirical Macroeconomics from Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Abstract:
In welfare theory it is standard to pick the consumption stream that maximizes the welfare of the representative agent. We argue against this position, and show that a benevolent social planner will generally place a greater weight on future consumption than does the representative agent.
Keywords: Welfare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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