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Depreciation in a Simple Regulatory Model: Reply


Volume: Volume 5, No. 1

Issue: Spring 1974

Pages: pp. 233-234

Authors: Bruce L. Jaffee

Title: Depreciation in a Simple Regulatory Model: Reply

Abstract: Several difficulties remain with the inclusion of depreciation in a regulatory model, even after Linhart's useful comments and extensions. His liquidity constraint is overly restrictive, there are difficulties in selecting the optimal discount rate(s), and the classification of a depreciation path as uniformly accelerated is incorrect.


JEL Classification

Regulation of Public Utilities (6130)
Business Finance (5210)