Well, the discount rate is sort of the — you notice there are two different interest rates here and you might be confused by them.

贴现率是一种，这里有两种不同的利率，你们可能会将其混淆。

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Deep discount bond note: bond with relatively low-coupon rate of interest offered with a discount in excess of what can normally be treated as capital gain by the investor.

按较大折扣发行的债券，大幅折价债券：这类债券通常利率较低，发行时的折扣率超过投资者一般所认为的资本收益。

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Shadow rate of interest Rate of interest used as te discount rate in project analysis. Include consumption rate of interest and accounting rate of interest.

影子利率在项目分析中作为贴现率使用的利率，包括消费利率和会计利率。

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Well, the discount rate is sort of the--you notice there are two different interest rates here and you might be confused by them.

贴现率是一种,这里有两种不同的利率,你们可能会将其混淆

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As a result of the power of compound interest, the choice of discount rate used to estimate the potential economic costs of climate change is more important for purposes of understanding the trade-offs associated with competing climate-change policy options than perhaps any other single issue in climate change economics.

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And the cost to the supplier of immediate cash payment by the bank, in respect of the implicit interest rate or discount on the bill, ought to be tiny - because the bank is in effect lending to the safe big company, which ultimately honours the bill, not to the riskier supplier.

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The interest rate allows me to discount the value of some cash payment in the future to the value the principle would hold for me if I had it now.

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