Valuation of Government Policies and Projects

Governments play a central role in the allocation of capital and risk in the economy. Evaluating the cost to taxpayers of government investments requires an assumption about the government’s cost of capital. Governments often take their borrowing rate to be their cost of capital, which implicitly t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lucas, Deborah J.
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Annual Reviews 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77231
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