Discounting and optimizing: Capital accumulation problems as variational minmax problems

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 53-70

  Geoffard, Pierre Yves ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

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EID: 0030115875     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jeth.1996.0037     Document Type: Article

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