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- From: bucknerb@bnr.ca (Brent Buckner)
- Subject: Re: GST Deferral
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.213106.22902@bnr.ca>
- Keywords: GST, Money, economics
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ontario, Canada
- References: <1993Jan27.155044.12688@bnr.ca> <1993Jan27.193508.4876@csi.uottawa.ca> <1993Jan27.210453.21985@bnr.ca>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:31:06 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.210453.21985@bnr.ca> bucknerb@bnr.ca (Brent Buckner) writes:
- >Aside:
- >If _as a rule_ individuals could earn a higher rate of interest than
- >their own and the government's discount rate for NPV purposes,
- >things would be rather odd.
-
- That's what I get for putting in an aside: now I have to clarify.
- I'm doing my analysis around the margin where the interest the
- individual can earn is around the individual's discount rate.
- Were that not the case, they'd either be investing everything
- or nothing (under simple utility formulae, ignoring Stone-Geary
- et al).
-
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