无限时域问题中横截性条件的必要性

Necessity of Transversality Conditions for Infinite Horizon Problems

Econometrica · 2001
被引 109
人大 A+FT50ABS 4*

中文导读

推广了横截性条件必要性的经典结果,不要求凹性假设,并证明回报函数的齐次性足以保证标准横截性条件的必要性,还应用于非平稳单部门增长模型和资产定价模型。

Abstract

This paper studies necessity of transversality conditions for the continuous time, reduced form model. By generalizing Benveniste and Scheinkman's (1982) “envelope” condition and Michel's (1990) version of the squeezing argument, we show a generalization of Michel's (1990, Theorem 1) necessity result that does not assume concavity. The generalization enables us to generalize Ekeland and Scheinkman's (1986) result as well as to establish a new result that does not require the objective functional to be finite. The new result implies that homogeneity of the return function alone is sufficient for the necessity of the most standard transversality condition. Our results are also applied to a nonstationary version of the one-sector growth model. It is shown that bubbles never arise in an equilibrium asset pricing model with a nonlinear constraint.

横截性条件无限期界问题必要性增长模型