Dynamic Economics: Optimization by the Lagrange Method

Dynamic Economics: Optimization by the Lagrange Method

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-248

  Chow, Gregory C ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic economics; Dynamic games; Dynamic optimization; Economic growth; Finance; Lagrange multipliers; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939629844     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195101928.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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