Discount rate

Discount rate may refer to:

• Social discount rate (of consumption), the rate at which the weight given to future consumption decreases in economic models
• Pure time preference, or utility discount rate, the rate at which the weight given to future utility decreases in economic models
• Annual effective discount rate, an alternative measure of interest rates to the standard Annual Percentage Rate
• Bank rate, the rate of interest a central bank charges on its loans to commercial banks
• Discount yield, a rate used in calculating cash flows
• Fees and other charges associated with merchant accounts.