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Stochastic Optimal Policies When the Discout Rate Vanishes

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  • Kazuo Nishimura

    () (Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University)

  • John Stachurski

    () (Department of Economics, University of Melbourne)

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Dutta (J. Econom. Theory, 1991, 55, 64?94) showed that long-run optimality of the limit of discounted optima when the discount rate vanishes is implied by a certain bound on the value function of the optimal program. We introduce a new method to verify this bound using coupling techniques.

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  • Kazuo Nishimura & John Stachurski, 2006. "Stochastic Optimal Policies When the Discout Rate Vanishes," KIER Working Papers 617, Kyoto University, Institute of Economic Research.
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    1. Armando F. Mendoza-Pérez & Héctor Jasso-Fuentes & Omar A. De-la-Cruz Courtois, 2016. "Constrained Markov decision processes in Borel spaces: from discounted to average optimality," Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR);Nederlands Genootschap voor Besliskunde (NGB), vol. 84(3), pages 489-525, December.

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