Discover how cost-benefit analysis helps determine project viability by balancing financial and intangible factors, its ...

The cost of capital and the discount rate are two related terms that are sometimes confused with each other. But they have important distinctions that make them both useful in deciding whether a new ...

This activity constitutes Phase 1 of a possible two-part effort directed towards guiding future benefit-cost studies, ensuring greater consistency and comparability across studies, and enhancing the ...

The government has proposed aligning the discount rate review periods with the valuation cycles of public service pension schemes, and is taking forward reforms to the cost-cap mechanism first ...

Arthur Grimes has previously received funding from the New Zealand Treasury to examine the social discount rate which is one input into CBAx. Arthur Grimes is a Senior Fellow of Motu Research, and is ...