Multiple solutions under quasi-exponential discounting

Economic Theory

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 513-526

  Vieille, Nicolas ^a   Weibull, Jörgen W ^b,c  

^a HEC PARIS   (France)

^b STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

^c ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Hyperbolic discounting; Multiplicity; Stochastic dynamic programming; Time consistency; Uniqueness

Indexed keywords

EID: 62949084245     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: 14320479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-008-0368-2     Document Type: Article

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