On October 31, 2018 at 4:15 pm in Pettengill G21, Thomas Cosimano, Professor Emeritus of Finance at Universtiy of Notre Dame presented his talk on “Discount Rates and Monetary Policy.” Paper ...

A discount rate is a percentage rate that investors use to measure the value of future cash flows in today's dollars. A discount rate has a wide variety of applications in terms of analyzing ...

The discount rate is the interest rate the Federal Reserve Banks set on secured overnight loans to depository institutions. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s discount rate was 1.00 percent from ...

The prime rate and the discount rate are both interest rates that the federal government uses. The Federal Reserve sets both interest rates. While the prime and discount rates have several ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. I can’t think of a metric that is more misunderstood and misused among college presidents, trustees ...

Climate change—including higher temperatures and more extreme weather—is already causing economic damage and is projected to have further long-lasting effects. To properly assess the potential future ...

Medical net discount rates (MNDRs) are calculated using monthly data for the period 1981:01-2012:06 based on the medical consumer price index and annual percentage yields based on 3-month, 6-month and ...

The basic business of banking involves taking money into certificates of deposit and checking and savings accounts and lending it out at higher interest rates while maintaining federally mandated ...

The New York Fed’s announcement today that it would redeem $5 billion more in maturing Treasury bills has rekindled speculation the central bank is contemplating some sort of move to stimulate ...

As I brought up in the first article in this two-part series, the choice of putting off spending money on climate change mitigation investments is similar to the grandparents that raid their ...