Partly, this is a question of discounting the future.
But how do you calculate them over hundreds of years?The question of what discount rate to use puzzles many people, such as pension-fund trustees.
The answer to the disparity between private- and public-sector pensions is to upgrade the former, not downgrade the latter, in the unions' view.They also regard the question of the discount rate as an accounting chimera.
They did not seem eager to grapple with the question of which discount rate to use to measure public pension obligations — the biggest issue in the minds of critics of the current rules.
The Chinese authorities came to him with a very specific question: "What sort of discount should you put on TVs in Tier 3 cities?
"This really is a question of balancing price discounts, losses and prices with what is in the best interest of the community".
A virtual-museum affair in a gallery, curated by Picasso's biographer John Richardson, settled the question of whether we can discount works of the artist's old age.
This brings us to the question of how much of the discount in payoffs to foreign education is attributable to source-country education quality.
While these observations implicate both the OPFC and the AcbC in delay discounting, they leave unanswered the question of whether the two structures play independent roles in delay discounting, or whether they contribute to an integrated mechanism regulating inter-temporal choice behaviour.
Those discounts raise the question of whether the Buy.com model can thrive in today's environment.
The promotions are aimed at workers who earn in the high five or six figures annually, raising the question of why they are even offered discounts.
