Table of Contents: Discount rates for the evaluation of public private partnerships /

Corporate Author:	John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy.
Other Authors:	Burgess, David F.,
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2010]
Subjects:	Public-private sector cooperation > Cost effectiveness > Canada Public investments > Cost effectiveness > Canada Capital costs > Canada

Table of Contents:

Discount rates for PPPs : overview of theory and practice
PPPs, the public sector comparator, and discount rates : key issues for developing countries / Chris Shugart
Time preference, the cost of capital, and PPPs / Michael Spackman
Theoretical approaches to the discounting of benefits and costs
Toward a reconciliation of alternative views on the social discount rate / David F. Burgess
The new (but old) approach to the economic opportunity cost of capital / Graham Glenday
What is risk? / Antal Deutsch
Estimation of discount rates in Canada.
On growth, investment, capital, and the rate of return / Arnold C. Harberger
Risk-adjusted discount rates for public sector investments : with illustrations for transportation / Donald J.S. Brean and David F. Burgess
The economic opportunity cost of capital for Canada : an empirical update / Glenn P. Jenkins and Chun-Yan Kuo
The social discount rate for provincial government investment projects / Peter S. Spiro
The path to best practice.