Learn how the federal discount rate and the federal funds rate differ and their impact on bank lending, liquidity, and ...

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, ...

Aug 27 (Reuters) - Members of the boards of directors overseeing the Chicago and New York Federal Reserve banks voted in favor of lowering by a quarter percentage point the central bank’s discount ...

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 ...

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 ...

Environmental justice is a major initiative of the Biden administration and various state governments, with a number of directives and programs to address fairness in the execution of governmental ...

Ultimately, the choice of discount rate can spell the difference between a comfortable retirement or an old age spent in poverty for tens of millions of workers. Not surprisingly, given the stakes ...

First, let’s be clear on what the discount rate is. If we consider valuation calculations as a two-step process, the first step is to determine the expected future cash flows from the pension scheme ...