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<journal-id>2448-718X</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[El trimestre económico]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[El trimestre econ]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2448-718X</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Fondo de Cultura Económica]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2448-718X2016000100099</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Estimación de la tasa social de descuento a largo plazo en el marco de los sistemas nacionales de inversión. Aplicación al caso chileno]]></article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Edwards]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Gonzalo]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Instituto de Economía ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Chile</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2016</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>03</month>
<year>2016</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>83</volume>
<numero>329</numero>
<fpage>99</fpage>
<lpage>125</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2448-718X2016000100099&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2448-718X2016000100099&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2448-718X2016000100099&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen: Este artículo analiza las distintas metodologías usadas en algunos países para estimar la tasa de descuento a largo plazo utilizada en proyectos públicos. Adicionalmente, estima, para Chile, la tasa de descuento, con base en dos metodologías: la primera es una variación del método de descuento gamma, propuesto por Weitzman (2001); la segunda usa la fórmula de Ramsey que se deriva de un modelo de crecimiento para estimar la tasa social de preferencia por el tiempo.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract: This paper analyzes the different methodologies used to estimate the long-run discount rate to be used when evaluating public projects in certain countries. Addi tionally, it estimates, for Chile, the discount rate, based on two methodologies: one is a small variation of Gamma discounting, first proposed by Martin Weitzman (2001), and the other one uses the Ramsey formula derived from a growth model to estimate the social rate of time preference.]]></p></abstract>
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