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Consumption-leisure-investment strategies with time-inconsistent preference in a life-cycle model

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  • Qian Zhao
  • Tak Kuen Siu

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This paper investigates a consumption-leisure-investment problem, where the object of an economic agent is to maximize the expected value of discounted lifetime utility in a life-cycle model. The agent is allowed to have considerable labor flexibility and the date of retirement is fixed. To incorporate some well-documented behavioral features of human beings, we consider the situation where the discounting is non-exponential. This situation is far from trivial and renders the optimization problem of the agent to be a nonstandard one, namely, a time-inconsistent stochastic control problem. The extended HJB equation for the time-inconsistent control problem is given. A verification theorem is proved for a general discount function and a general utility function. Explicit-form solutions are presented for the logarithmic utility with exponential discounting, pseudo-exponential discounting and hyperbolic discounting.

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  • Qian Zhao & Tak Kuen Siu, 2020. "Consumption-leisure-investment strategies with time-inconsistent preference in a life-cycle model," Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 49(24), pages 6057-6079, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:lstaxx:v:49:y:2020:i:24:p:6057-6079
    DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2019.1626426
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