Missing Participants, Missing Markets, and the Social Discount Rate: Borrowing Constraints, Intergenerational Transfers, Altruism, and the Desire for Legacy

IF 5 3区 经济学 Q1 BUSINESS, FINANCE
Andrew Caplin, John Leahy
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Abstract

Market interest rates reflect the preferences of market participants. When market participants are missing, the average discount rate in the population may therefore differ from the market rate. Missing current market participants, such as constrained borrowers, tends to imply an average discount rate that is above the market rate, whereas missing future market participants, such as future generations, tends to imply an average rate below the market rate. Nonetheless, a government with the ability to transfer wealth intratemporally across agents will generally wish to use the market interest rate as a guide to policy. One robust argument for the use of a lower social discount rate is intrapersonal: Future selves discount the past, whereas current selves discount the future. Legacy utility may also justify a low social discount rate. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Financial Economics, Volume 15 is November 2023. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.
缺失的参与者、缺失的市场和社会贴现率:借贷约束、代际转移、利他主义和遗产欲望
市场利率反映了市场参与者的偏好。当市场参与者缺失时,人群中的平均贴现率可能与市场利率不同。缺失的当前市场参与者,如受约束的借款人,往往意味着平均贴现率高于市场利率,而缺失的未来市场参与者,例如子孙后代,往往意味平均贴现率低于市场利率。尽管如此,一个有能力在代理人之间临时转移财富的政府通常希望将市场利率作为政策指南。使用较低社会贴现率的一个有力论据是内在的:未来的自我贴现过去,而现在的自我贴现未来。传统公用事业也可以证明低社会折扣率是合理的。《金融经济学年度评论》第15卷预计最终在线出版日期为2023年11月。请参阅http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates用于修订估算。
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