Author : Bernard Dumas
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)
Book Synopsis Efficient Intertemporal Allocations with Recursive Utility by : Bernard Dumas
Download or read book Efficient Intertemporal Allocations with Recursive Utility written by Bernard Dumas and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this article, our objective is to determine efficient allocations in economies with multiple agents having recursive utility functions. Our main result is to show that in a multiagent economy, the problem of determining efficient allocations can be characterized in terms of a single value function (that of a social planner), rather than multiple functions (one for each investor), as has been proposed thus far (Duffie, Geoffard and Skiadas (1994)). We then show how the single value function can be identified using the familiar technique of stochastic dynamic programming. We achieve these goals by first extending to a stochastic environment Geoffard's (1996) concept of variational utility and his result that variational utility is equivalent to recursive utility, and then using these results to characterize allocations in a multiagent setting.