Necessity of transversality conditions for infinite horizon problems

Econometrica

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 995-1012

  Kamihigashi, Takashi ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Asset pricing; Bubbles; Dynamic optimization; Growth; Transversality condition

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005873986     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0262.00227     Document Type: Article

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