Solving Consumption Models with Multiplicative Habits

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Solving Consumption Models with Multiplicative Habits

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Christopher D Carroll

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This paper provides derivations necessary for solving an optimal consumption problem with multiplicative habits and a CRRA 'outer' utility function either for a microeconomic problem with both labor income risk and rate-of-return risk or for a macroeoconomic representative agent model

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Paper provided by The Johns Hopkins University,Department of Economics in its series Economics Working Paper Archive with number 421.

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- Carroll, Christopher D., 2000. "Solving consumption models with multiplicative habits," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 68(1), pages 67-77, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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Christopher D Carroll & Jody Overland & David N Weil, 1997. "Comparison Utility in a Growth Model," Economics Working Paper Archive 387, The Johns Hopkins University,Department of Economics.
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