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Dynamic Preferences, Choice Mechanisms, and Welfare

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  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Ludwig Auer

    1. Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre IV Internationale Wirtschaft, University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

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  • The book conveys a fundamental understanding of intertemporal decision making.
  • It is thus useful for researchers and teachers alike.

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems (LNE, volume 462)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

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      Pages 1-3

  3. A Survey of Intertemporal Choice under Certainty

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      Pages 5-5
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    2. Elements of Intertemporal Choice

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      Pages 7-23

    3. Myopic Utility Models

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      Pages 25-45

    4. Additive Utility Models

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      Pages 47-68

    5. Recursive Utility Models

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      Pages 69-82

    6. Universal Utility Models

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      Pages 83-98

  4. Preferences, Choice, and Welfare in Universal Utility Models

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      Pages 99-99
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    2. Elementary Aspects of Choice in Universal Utility Models

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      Pages 101-129

    3. Properties of Dynamic Choice Functions

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      Pages 131-141

    4. Welfare Judgements

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      Pages 143-150

    5. Conditions for Stability, Ordinality, and Contractibility

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      Pages 151-163

    6. An Extension to Uncertainty

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      Pages 165-191

    7. Concluding Remarks

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      Pages 193-194

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 195-228
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For most economic aspects of human behaviour, static deci­ sion models provide an insufficient description. More specifically, they ignore the fact that preferences may change over time and that at each point of time current preferences depend on aspects which are associated with the past or the future. The neglect of these phenomena may lead to results which have little in com­ mon with real life. Dynamic decision models were developed in order to cope with these complications. Spurred by the availability of new mathematical tools such as optimal control theory and dynamic programming, dynamic utility models mushroomed over the last two decades. Various frameworks were developed featuring dif­ ferent restrictions on the way agents form preferences in an in­ tertemporal environment. Unfortunately, no systematic reappraisal of this literature ex­ ists. The survey provided in part I of this thesis attempts to fill in this gap. It introduces a comprehensive classification sys­ tem which allows for a coherent organization of all studies of intertemporal choice under certainty and complete information. 2 1. Introduction The latter implies that the individual knows in advance all fu­ ture preferences and choice possibilities. In this survey we show that all dynamic utility models can be viewed as special cases of the class of universal utility mod­ els. It is therefore desirable to investigate intertemporal decision making in terms of this least restrictive framework. Accordingly, all findings of part II of this thesis are derived for the class of universal utility models.

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  • Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre IV Internationale Wirtschaft, University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

    Ludwig Auer

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