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Ainslie, George, Picoeconomics: the strategic interaction of successive motivation state with the person, Cambridge University Press, 1992

Arrow, Kenneth J., and Robert C. Lind, “Uncertainty and the Evaluation of Public Investment Decisions.” in The American Economic Review Vol. 60, 1970 pp. 364-378.

Bazelon, Coleman, and Kent Smetters, “Discounting Inside the Washington D.C. Beltway.” Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 13, Number 4, Fall 1999 pp. 213-228.

Boardman, Anthony E., David H Greenburg, Aidan R. Vining and David L. Weimer pp. 170-171 they also refer to the work by Agnar Sandmo and Jacques H Dreze, "Discount Rates for Public Investment in Closed and Open Economies." Economica, 38, no. 152. (November 1971), pp. 395-412.

Boscolo, Marco, Jeffery R Vincent and Theodore Panayotou, “Discounting Costs and Benefits in Carbon Sequestration Projects.” Harvard Institute for International Development, Environment Discussion Paper No. 41, February 1998

Cabinet Office Circular (00) 12 Guidelines for Changes to Baselines, 2000

Copeland Thomas E. and J. Fred Weston, Financial Theory and Corporate Policy, Third Edition, 1992, Addison Wesley

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Laibson, David, Andrea Repetto and Jeremy Tobacman, “The Debt Puzzle.” Working Paper 7879, NBER Working Paper Series, September 2000

Lally, Martin, Draft paper entitled “The Capital Charge Rate for the Department of Internal Affairs.” Unpublished, October 1999

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Sadmo, Agnar, and Jacques H. Dreze, “Discount Rates for Public Investment in closed and Open Economies,” Economica, Vol. 38, No.152. November 1971, pp.395-412

Stiglitz, Joseph, “Discount Rates: The rate of discount for benefit-cost analysis and the theory of second best.” in Cost-Benefit Analysis 2nd Edition edited by Richard Layard and Stephen Glaister, Cambridge University Press 1994 diagram on p. 124 article on pp. 116-159.

The Treasury Office Minute 1999/B41 Guidelines for Costing Policy Proposals 21 December 1999, p. 13.

Tullock, G., “The Social Rate of Discount and the Optimal Rate of Investment: Comment.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 78, No 2, 1964 pages 331-336 cited in John Cullis and Philip Jones, “Public Finance and Public Choice – analytical perspectives.” McGraw Hill 1992, Chapter Six Evaluation of public expenditure cost-benefit analysis section seven on discounting and the cost of capital, pp. 164-171.

Warner, John T., and Saul Pleeter, “The Personal Discount Rate: evidence from Military Downsizing programs”, The American Economic Review, Volume 91, Number 1 March 2001, pp.33-53

Wilkinson, Bryce D. The Public Sector Discount Rate Issues, Fallacies and Opinions, A paper prepared for the New Zealand Association of Economist’s Winter Conference – Hamilton, August 1982

Wright, Janice, Draft paper entitled ”Discounting in Cost-Utility Analysis Why is it done and what rate should the Health Funding Authority Use?” Unpublished, 19 December 1998.

Young, Louise J., Review of Capital Charge Formula for Vote Branch Managers, Unpublished, August 2000.

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