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Ramsey Cass Koopmans Model
Ramsey Cass Koopmans Model
With properties:
– u(c(t)) is strictly increasing, concave, twice continuously
differentiable
– positive but diminishing marginal felicity of consumption.
u(c) satisfies Inada conditions:
Where
Competitive factor markets imply:
And
Ĥ
t t r t n
a t
• The transversality condition is:
• Where
• As s approaches t, we get:
Equilibrium Prices
• The market rate of return for consumers, r (t), is given by:
• Subject to