@article{Price:199241, recid = {199241}, author = {Price, C.}, title = {Optimal rotation with differently-discounted benefit streams}, journal = {Scandinavian Forest Economics: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Scandinavian Society of Forest Economics}, address = {2014-12-31}, number = {1334-2016-103875}, series = {Scandinavian Forest Economics}, pages = {7}, month = {Dec}, year = {2014}, abstract = {The case is often now made that discount rates should decline with time. Underlying reasons include that some kinds benefit (or cost) might be discounted at a lower rate than that used for others : in particular, that rates for carbon values and environmental amenities might be less than that for timber. A lengthening sequence of rotations then arises, whether the benefits are consumptive ones realised at the rotation end, or non-consumptive ones whose annual value increases through the rotation. A timber discount rate lower than that for non-consumptive benefits leads to a shortening sequence of rotations. The results differ importantly from those of discounting at a reducing rate through time.}, url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/199241}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.199241}, }