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The percentage by which  the current  value of an asset  (to a person or to a commercial organisation)    exceeds its value in a year's time.  For a person, it is equal to  that person’s  marginal rate of substitution between consumption in the two successive years.  For a commercial  organisation, it is  equal to  that  organisation’s ''cost of capital'' (qv).
The percentage by which  the current  value of an asset  (to a person or to a commercial organisation)    exceeds its value in a year's time.  For a person, it is equal to  that person’s  marginal rate of substitution between consumption in the two successive years.  For a commercial  organisation, it is  equal to  that  organisation’s ''cost of capital''.

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The percentage by which the current value of an asset (to a person or to a commercial organisation) exceeds its value in a year's time. For a person, it is equal to that person’s marginal rate of substitution between consumption in the two successive years. For a commercial organisation, it is equal to that organisation’s cost of capital.