Stochastic optimal policies when the discount rate vanishes

Kazuo Nishimura; John Stachurski

doi:10.1016/j.jedc.2006.05.011

Stochastic optimal policies when the discount rate vanishes

Kazuo Nishimura, John Stachurski^*

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Dutta [1991. What do discounted optima converge to? A theory of discount rate asymptotics in economic models. Journal of Economic Theory 55, 64-94] showed that long-run optimality of the limit of discounted optima when the discount rate vanishes is implied by a certain bound on the value function of the optimal program. We introduce a new method to verify this bound using coupling techniques.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1416-1430
Number of pages	15
Journal	Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Volume	31
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2006.05.011
Publication status	Published - Apr 2007
Externally published	Yes

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