On uniqueness of time-consistent Markov policies for quasi-hyperbolic consumers under uncertaintyŁukasz Balbus, Kevin Reffett and Łukasz Woźny Journal of Economic Theory, 2018, vol. 176, issue C, 293-310 Abstract: We give a set of sufficient conditions for uniqueness of a time-consistent stationary Markov consumption policy for a quasi-hyperbolic household under uncertainty. To the best of our knowledge, this uniqueness result is the first presented in the literature for general settings, i.e. under standard assumptions on preferences, as well as some new condition on a transition probability. This paper advocates a “generalized Bellman equation” method to overcome some predicaments of the known methods and also extends our recent existence result. Our method also works for returns unbounded from above. We provide a few natural extensions of optimal policy uniqueness: convergent and accurate computational algorithm, monotone comparative statics result and generalized Euler equation. Keywords: Time consistency; Markov equilibrium; Uniqueness; Generalized Bellman equation (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jetheo:v:176:y:2018:i:c:p:293-310 DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2018.04.003 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Economic Theory is currently edited by A. Lizzeri and K. Shell More articles in Journal of Economic Theory from Elsevier |
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