Optimally eating a stochastic cake: A recursive utility approach

Resource and Energy Economics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 129-139

  Epaulard, Anne ^a   Pommeret, Aude ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Non renewable resource; Recursive utility; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COSTS; EXTRACTION; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS;

INTERTEMPORAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL;

ENERGY RESOURCES;

NONRENEWABLE RESOURCE; RESOURCE DEPLETION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SUBSTITUTION;

EID: 0037616585     PISSN: 09287655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-7655(02)00022-2     Document Type: Article

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