The golden rule when preferences are time inconsistent

Mathematics and Financial Economics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-55

  Ekeland, Ivar ^a   Lazrak, Ali ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Implicit differential equation; Intergenerational equity; Markov strategies; Nash equilibria; Ramsey models; Time inconsistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650039253     PISSN: 18629679     EISSN: 18629660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11579-010-0034-x     Document Type: Article

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