Questions tagged [dynamic-programming]
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Policy function iteration method in continuous time (with shocks)
Is there any reference available on the algorithm of policy function iteration method in continuous time, when we have uncertainty in the model?
Currently, my conclusion is that the combination of ...
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What assumptions can be made to ensure convexity in this optimization problem?
This question is a continuation of the question I asked at:
How can I show convexity of this value function?
Where I came to the conclusion that more assumptions are required to show that the ...
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How can I show convexity of this value function?
I have set up an optmization problem as follows:
$$V(A)=\max_{l, C} \quad u(C,l)$$
Where the only constraint is as follows:
$$C=f(l,A)$$
Here $u$ is the utility function which captures social welfare. ...
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Optimal stopping (reference request)
I am interested in the following optimal stopping problem:
On each day, a number $a_i$ is drawn from a (possibly fixed) distribution.
I can either stop now, getting a payoff of $a_i$, or wait for a ...
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How can I formulate the following optimization problem?
I want to set up an optmiization problem for global warming in which a planner determines how much carbon dioxide gas is emitted. Let's say we reduce this problem down to two periods, then I ...
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simplification of FOC
This is the first-order condition of a dynamic programming problem where I am trying to get the Euler equation from a sequential problem.
(1) $$\frac{\partial V(d_2)}{\partial d_3} = \frac{-1}{d_2-d_3}...
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How to determine state variables in Value Functions
I've always been slightly confused as to how to determine what is and isn't a state variable in dynamic programming. The mathematics of DP doesn't seem to offer any clues either in my experience.
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More equations than endogenous variables in RBC model
I recently came across my late father's bachelor's thesis, in which a RBC model is described. It appears to be a variant of Hansen's 1985 model with indivisible labor. I wrote the model into Dynare to ...
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How to define a dynamic programming problem in an incomplete information game?
How can I define a problem of dynamic programming, to use the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation in order to solve the utility maximization problem of the generic agent of a dynamic game with incomplete ...
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Mechanism Design and game theory with stochastic caclulus
Does anybody know if there is a literature that combines mechanism design or market games with dynamic programming or stochastic calculus in general? I have heard about stochastic differential game ...
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Closed form solution to consumption-saving model in discrete time
Consider the simplest consumption-savings model of the following form:
$$
\max_{\{c_t,a_{t+1}\}_t}\mathbb{E_0}\sum_{t\geq 0} \beta^tu(c_t) \\
a_{t+1} + c_t = (1+r)a_t + y_t \\
y_t \mid y_{t-1} \sim F
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Dynamic programming in infinite horizon model
Using an infinite horizon model, a dynamic programming approach uses a fixed point to solve the model: $V = \Gamma(V)$.
How do I interpret the meaning of $V$? For example, when we decide a investment ...
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Easy introduction to Markov processes and dynamic programming [closed]
I am taking advanced macro course in Fall. Could you please advise me a simple introduction to Markov processes and dynamic programming? I mean easy. Thanks!
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Resources to derive economic forecasts
What publicly available resources are there, with sample code, that can be used to build my own macroeconomic model? A search on Github shows that some people have posted code, but I think we can do ...
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Value function iteration with stochastic productivity's standard deviation
Hello I would like to know how would you discretize the AR(1) process of technology in a standart RBC model when there is stochastic productivity's standard deviation. Namely I have:
Technology $Z_t$ ...
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Value function iteration with habit
I would like to know how I could write a value function when there are habits in preferences. I have the following equations:
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u\left(C, t, H_{t}, L_{t}\right)=\frac{\left(C_{t} / H_{t}^{\kappa}\...
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Exercise 4.7 in SLP (dynamic programming)
Exercise 4.7 (b) : Show that under Assumptions 4.10 and 4.11, $T:H(X) \to H(X)$.
$H(X)$ is the set of continuous and homogeneous of degree one functions and $Tf(x) = \sup_{y \in \Gamma(x)} \{F(x,y) + ...
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Cost-optimal p2p-trade in a community of households
I’m trying to solve the following problem and I’ve been working on it for a long time already:
I want to optimize electricity-costs in a smart grid. There’s producer and consumer households in the ...
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Proving that the utility is concave
Consider a household which solves the following problem:
$$v(k,r,w)=\underset{c,l\in B{(k,r,ω)}}{\ {max}} \{u(c,l)\}$$
where $u : R_+^2 \rightarrow R$ is a strictly concave, twice continuously ...
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Cake eating problem
Consider an infinitely lived agent born in time zero, endowed with a cake of size $x_0$. The cake is storable (without depreciation) and infinitely divisible. The agent derives contemporary utility ...
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Dynamic programming and Difference equations applications
I'm asked by my teacher to prepare a presentation with economic applications of Dynamic Programing (Bellman Equation) and Difference equations. I'm not sure what this things are used for in economics ...
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A Cake Eating Problem in Continuous Time: Hamiltonian or HJB?
Your standard continuous time cake eating problem is defined as follows:
$$\max_{c(t)}\int_0^\infty e^{-rt} \ln (c(t)) dt$$
subject to
$$f(k(t))=k(t)$$
$$\dot{k}(t)=-c(t)$$
Approaching this problem by ...
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The Principle of Optimality and the Bellman Equation
Given (1) and (2), is it possible to show the existence of a Bellman equation (3), using Bellman's Principle of Optimality?
$$\ max \Sigma\beta^s U(C_t)$$
Subject to the following resource ...
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What are the boundary value conditions for generic HJBs in economics?
Consider a routine continuous time optimization problem:
$
V(t,a_{t}) :=
\max \int_{\tau=t}^{\tau = T}
e^{-\rho (\tau -t)} u(c_{\tau})d\tau
$ $\text{ s.t. }$
$\dot{a}_{t} = y + ra_{t} - c_{t}$,
$a_{...
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What is state space representation for DSGE modeling
I'm beginning with DSGE modeling, and a mathematical representation (perhaps trivial for most of the people that are more with this topic) is the space-state state representation of a dynamical model, ...
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Optimization in discrete time
I have made optimizations in continuous time that belong to the control theory, for example one case:
$\max(\min)V[u(t)]=\int_0^Tf(t,x(t),u(t))dt$
constraint to: $\dot x=g(t,x(t),u(t))$
Where:
$x(t)$: ...
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Can anyone help me understand the Motrtensen-Pissarides model?
I am seeking help with the Mortensen-Pissarides model in discrete time? Basically, I was given the following in class example (which we didn’t complete do to time constraints associated with the end ...
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Solving a HJB with a probability to transit to a new state
I am trying to solve the problem of a firm facing the possibility of a future tax, in continuous time.
The firm maximizes $V(k)=\int_{t=0}^{\infty}e^{-rt} \pi_t dt$ with $\pi_t=f(k_t)-i_t$ and $\dot{k}...
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More than one Bellman Equation
I'm attending to my first dynamic optimization course, and what I don't fully graps yet is that sometimes we have to use more than one bellman equation.
How do you realize that? I mean how do you know ...
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Coase conjecture and Stokey model
The durable goods monopolist can charge different prices by every periods. Critical type consumers are indifferent between buying today and buying tomorrow. So I construct a Bellman equation like ...
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What is the result of the Bellman Equation
I'm just starting with dynamic optimization and although I understant the proof's of the theorem I'm not able to fully understand whether the bellman equation is a function , a function valuated at ...
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Why do game theorists use a discounted payoff of this form?
Excuse the click-baity title. I notice the discounted payoff in the game theory literature usually takes the form
$$\sum_{t=1}^\infty\lambda(1-\lambda)^{t-1}R_t$$
This differs from the discounted ...
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Linearization of the dynamic system (I did it, but I have a mistake that I cannot catch. Help me please)
I have the following dynamic system in discrete time
For p is price, d is demand and s is supply.
$$p_{t+1}-p_t= a(d_t-s_t)$$
$$s_{t+1}-s_t=bp_ts_t-ws_t$$
$$d_t= k-gp_t$$
I have to linearize this ...
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The Cake Eating Problem with Depreciation (Modelling difficulties)
How does one go about modelling the cake eating problem with depreciation? (i.e The cake goes bad over time)
The problem I have is the following.
Lets define a cake eating problem sequentially as:
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Dynamic programming, optimal consumption-savings (finite horizon) problem
Let $w_t$ denote a consumer's wealth at time $t$ and $c_t$,
the amount she chooses to consume, so her savings exiting this time period are $w_t-c_t$. Given this savings decision, her savings $w_{t+1}$ ...
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A profit maximization problem (whole problem has been solved, I just have question about interpretation)
I would like to discuss with you about the following production function.
$$y=f(t_m, t_l)=\rho t_m^m(n+t_l)$$
where $0<m<1 $ and $n>0$ are fixed parameters.
$t_m$ is manager time.
$t_l$ ...
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Sequential Price Competition for Perfect Complements
There are two goods, $1$ and $2$ produced by two firms at zero marginal costs. The goods are perfect complements. The demand for each goods is: $Q_1=Q_2=a-(p_1+p_2)$. The prices are set sequentially, ...
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What is unknown in Bellman Equation?
\begin{align}
V(W)=\max\limits_{W'\in[0,W]}\qquad& u(W-W')+\beta V(W')\qquad\forall W
\end{align}
$\textbf{My Question}$: Why is the unknown in the Bellman equation $V(W)$ itself? Isn't the ...
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Why is there a Lagrangian Multiplier in the Dynamic Programming Problem of the RBC model?
Suppose that the household faces the following problem:
$\underset{ c_t , k_{t+1}, n_t } \max \mathbb{E}_0 \sum_{t=0}^{\infty} \beta^t \ln c_t + \ln (1 - n_t)$
subjected to
$ k_{t+1} = A_t k_t ^{\...
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In Blackwell's condition for T to be a contraction mapping, we require that satisfies discounting. What is the intuition of discounting?
The discounting condition is as follow:
There exists some $\beta \in (0, 1)$ such that $[T(f + a)](x) ≤ (T f)(x) + βa$, for all $f ∈ B(X), a ≥ 0, x ∈ X$.
While the monotonicity condition makes sense,...
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Natural borrowing/debt limit and other borrowing constraints
When confronted with the simple household consumption maximization problem under uncertainty (and with Arrow security sequential trading)
$$\max_{\{c_t(s^t),a_{t+1}(s^t,s_{t+1})\}_{t=0}^{\infty}}\...
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Explanation of Dynamic Programming "Guess and Verify" Technique
According to my textbook, the analytical technique for solving a Bellman's Equation is as follows:
Guess a form for $V_0(x)$
Solve the maximization problem with respect to the control and obtain a ...
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Capital accumulation
I have following dynamic optimization problem
$$V(k_0)=\max \sum_{t=0}^{\infty} b^t((1-a)ln c_t+a ln(l_t))$$
Subject to $l_t+e_t=h$ and $y=Ak_t^pe_t^{1-p}$ and $k_{t+1}=i_t+(1-x)k_t$
Where c is ...
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Market clearing condition with Walras law
I have a diamond overlapping model
The question is as follows
Let us consider an infinitely lived production economy populated at time t by $N_t$ identical and perfectly competitive adult ...
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How do I begin to approach this dynamic discrete choice model?
I'm working through an old problem set (that sadly I don't have solutions for) and I got stuck. It is a dynamic model of entrepreneurship and invention. I'm looking for guidance on this model as well ...
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Solution to Dynamic Programming (Bellman Equation) Problem
Could someone please provide pointers on how to solve the below? If any theoretical approximations are possible, that would be very helpful. If numerical solutions are the right approach, could you ...
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Stochastic Dynamic Programming: Deriving the Steady-State for a Lottery
I am working through the basic examples of the stochastic RBC models in the book by McCandless (2008): The ABCs of RBCs, pp. 71 - 75
A Standard Stochastic Dynamic Programming Problem
Here is a ...
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A reference for most used utility functions in macroeconomic problems of intertemporal optimization
I'm looking for a reference with the most used utility functions in macroeconomic problems of intertemporal optimization. The reference should preferably include a list of properties of those ...
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Question regarding Carlstrom and Feurst (1997)
I am reading through Carlstrom and Feurst's 1997 paper Agency Costs, Net Worth, and Business Fluctuations: A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis and had a question, although it could apply to ...
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Optimisation using value function
I have the following optimisation problem:
max $E_{0}\sum_{t=0}^{\infty}[log(c_{t}) + log(m_{t})]$ subject to $y + \frac{M_{t-1}}{p_{t}} + R_{t-1}\frac{B_{t-1}}{p_{t}} = c_{t} + m_{t}+b_{t}+\tau_{t}$
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