dc.contributor.author | Lucas, Deborah J. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-02-28T14:59:57Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-02-28T14:59:57Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-01 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1941-1367 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1941-1375 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77231 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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 treats the market risk associated with their activities as having no cost to taxpayers. This article reviews the theoretical and practical rationale for treating market risk as a cost to governments, presents an interpretive review of the growing literature that applies the concepts and tools of modern finance to evaluating the costs of government policies and projects
and suggests directions for future research. Examples considered include deposit insurance, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Federal Reserve’s emergency lending facilities, student loans, real infrastructure investments, and public pension plans. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Annual Reviews | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-financial-110311-101829 | en_US |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ | en_US |
dc.source | Prof. Lucas via Alex Caracuzzo | en_US |
dc.title | Valuation of Government Policies and Projects | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Lucas, Deborah. “Valuation of Government Policies and Projects.” Annual Review of Financial Economics 4.1 (2012): 39–58. | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Sloan School of Management | en_US |
dc.contributor.approver | Lucas, Deborah | |
dc.contributor.mitauthor | Lucas, Deborah J. | |
dc.relation.journal | Annual Review of Financial Economics | en_US |
dc.eprint.version | Author's final manuscript | en_US |
dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
dspace.orderedauthors | Lucas, Deborah | en |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7540-936X | |
mit.license | OPEN_ACCESS_POLICY | en_US |
mit.metadata.status | Complete | |