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Intertemporal Dependence, Impatience, and Dynamics / Maurice Obstfeld.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Obstfeld, Maurice.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w3028.
- NBER working paper series no. w3028
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1989.
- Summary:
- This paper develops simple geometric methods for analyzing dynamic behavior in models with intertemporally dependent consumer tastes. Since the preferences studied do not assume time-additivity, they allow the marginal utility of consumption on a given date to vary with consumption on other dates. Intertemporal dependence is induced by the presence of a variable individual rate of time preference. The optimal consumption responses to transitory and anticipated changes in incomes and interest rates are easily derived and are similar in important ways to the responses implied by the standard model with constant time preference. Intuitive explanations of the first-order conditions describing optimal paths are provided.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 1989.
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