Investment and consumption without commitment

Mathematics and Financial Economics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 57-86

  Ekeland, Ivar ^a   Pirvu, Traian A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Equilibrium policies; Merton problem; Portfolio optimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 57149095041     PISSN: 18629679     EISSN: 18629660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11579-008-0014-6     Document Type: Article

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