# Discount rates in MimiGIVE

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**Created:** [July 11, 2026, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.mimiframework.org/t/discount-rates-in-mimigive/336 "2026-07-11T16:44:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![pansah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8dc957/32.png) [@pansah](https://forum.mimiframework.org/u/pansah)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2026, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.mimiframework.org/t/discount-rates-in-mimigive/336/1 "2026-07-11T16:44:30Z")

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What combination of p and n could plausibly yield 0.5% and 1% discount rates in MimiGIVE?

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**Author:** ![lrennels](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.mimiframework.org/lrennels/32/6_2.png) [@lrennels](https://forum.mimiframework.org/u/lrennels)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2026, 4:56am UTC](https://forum.mimiframework.org/t/discount-rates-in-mimigive/336/2 "2026-08-03T04:56:22Z")

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Are you looking for pairs that will yield 0.5% and 1% in the near-term? If you are using Ramsey discounting then your discount factor will change over time, so you can pin to a near term discount rate with calibrated parameters like those we used in Rennert et al. (I can provide those). If you want constant discount rates that remain 0.5% or 1% for the entire time horizon, you can set eta to 0 and rho to 0.005 or 0.01 respectively.