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Stochastic Differential Utility as the Continuous-Time Limit of Recursive Utility


Holger Kraft


Goethe University Frankfurt

Frank Thomas Seifried


University of Kaiserslautern

May 10, 2013


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We establish a convergence theorem that shows that discrete-time recursive utility, as developed by Kreps and Porteus (1978), converges to stochastic di erential utility, as introduced by Due and Epstein (1992), in the continuous-time limit of vanishing grid size.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 21

Keywords: stochastic differential utility, recursive utility, convergence, backward stochastic differential equation

JEL Classification: D81, D91

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Date posted: June 29, 2011 ; Last revised: May 12, 2013

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Kraft, Holger and Seifried, Frank Thomas, Stochastic Differential Utility as the Continuous-Time Limit of Recursive Utility (May 10, 2013). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1873572 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1873572

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Holger Kraft
Goethe University Frankfurt ( email )
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Grueneburgplatz 1
Frankfurt am Main, 60323
Germany
Frank Thomas Seifried (Contact Author)
University of Kaiserslautern ( email )
Erwin-Schrödinger-Straße
67663 Kaiserslautern
Germany
+49-631-2054483 (Phone)
HOME PAGE: http://www.mathematik.uni-kl.de/~seifried
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