Numerical Analysis of Non-Constant Discounting with an Application to Renewable Resource Management

Publication Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

3-2006

Abstract

The possibility of non-constant discounting is important in environmental and resource management problems where current decisions affect welfare in the far-distant future, as with climate change. The difficulty of analyzing models with non-constant discounting limits their application. We describe and provide software to implement an algorithm to numerically obtain a Markov Perfect Equilibrium for an optimal control problem with non-constant discounting. The software is available online. We illustrate the approach by studying welfare and observational equivalence for a particular renewable resource management problem.

Discipline

Econometrics

Research Areas

Macroeconomics

Publication

Third World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists

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