Decision theory and stochastic growth
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RIV/00216208:11640/22:00572664
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Decision theory and stochastic growth
Original language description
This paper examines connections between stochastic growth and decision problems. We use tools from the theory of large deviations to show that wishful thinking decision problems are equivalent to utility maximization problems, both of which are equivalent to growth maximization under idiosyncratic risk. Rational inattention problems are equivalent to growth-optimal portfolio problems, both of which are equivalent to growth maximization under aggregate risk. Stochastic growth generates extreme inequality, with nearly all wealth eventually held by those who happen to have faced an empirical distribution of shocks that matches the solution to the wishful thinking or rational inattention problem.
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Classification
Type
O - Miscellaneous
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50201 - Economic Theory
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů