In regulatory cost benefit analysis the discount rate translates future value to present terms. Regulatory costs, such as investments in pollution control equipment or redesigning nutrition labels, ...

U.S. corporate pension plans' funding ratios now exceed 100% thanks to rising discount rates bringing down pension liabilities, according to three new reports. Milliman, in its latest report of the ...

Mortgage discount points are an optional fee that some borrowers choose to pay to their lender in exchange for a lower interest rate for their mortgage loan. As a general rule, paying points might be ...

We show that firms' nominal required returns to capital (i.e., their discount rates) are sticky with respect to expected inflation. Such nominally sticky discount rates imply that increases in ...

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Jan 6 (Reuters) - Directors at two-thirds of the ‌Federal Reserve's regional banks voted to leave ‌the interest rate charged to commercial banks for emergency loans unchanged ahead of last month's Fed ...