Mathematics for Economists

(Greg DeLong) #1

InÖnite cake eating problem


By the Bellman equation

V(w) = max
c 2 [ 0 ,w]

(u(c)+βV(wc))=

= max
s 2 [ 0 ,w]

(u(ws)+βV(s)).

The condition on optimality is

u^0 (c)=βV^0 (wc)

or
u^0 (ws)=βV^0 (s).
How we can calculateV^0 (u)?
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