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Estimación Empírica de la Tasa Social de Descuento Estudio de Caso Bolivia

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  • Raúl Castro
  • Jorge Armando Rueda Gallardo

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La Tasa Social de Descuento (TSD) para un país es un parámetro relevante en el Análisis Costo Beneficio que permite descontar los flujos de beneficios y costos económicos (sociales) futuros de un proyecto o un programa a un periodo presente. El objetivo del presente documento es proponer una metodología práctica con fundamentación teórica y con una aplicación a la economía boliviana. La metodología utilizada es una ponderación respecto a la participación del financiamiento de la inversión pública de la tasa marginal de preferencia temporal, la tasa marginal de rendimiento del capital y la tasa de costo de oportunidad de los recursos del exterior. El resultado del enfoque metodológico para Bolivia arrojó un valor de la TSD 8,5%. La principal recomendación es el proceso continuo de actualización periódica de la TSD ante variaciones en los costos de oportunidad de los recursos y la participación de las fuentes de financiamiento respectivas.

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  • Raúl Castro & Jorge Armando Rueda Gallardo, 2020. "Estimación Empírica de la Tasa Social de Descuento Estudio de Caso Bolivia," Documentos CEDE 18020, Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE.
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    Keywords

    tasa social de descuento; tasa social de preferencia en el tiempo; análisiscosto beneficio; precio sombra del capital; función de bienestar social;
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    JEL classification:

    • H43 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Project Evaluation; Social Discount Rate
    • H50 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - General
    • H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures

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