Existence of perfect equilibria in a class of multigenerational stochastic games of capital accumulation

Automatica

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1471-1479

  Balbus, Łukasz ^a   Nowak, Andrzej S ^b  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZIELONA GÓRA   (Poland)

Author keywords

Altruistic economy of growth; Capital accumulation; Hyperbolic discounting; Multigenerational stochastic game; Perfect equilibrium

Indexed keywords

GAME THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; THEOREM PROVING;

CAPITAL ACCUMULATION; HYPERBOLIC DISCOUNTING; MULTIGENERATIONAL STOCHASTIC GAME; PERFECT EQUILIBRIUM;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 44349117865     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2008.03.001     Document Type: Article

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