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Solutions Manual for Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics

by Claudio Irigoyen, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and Mark L. J. Wright

Harvard University Press, 2002
Paper: 978-0-674-00888-5 | eISBN: 978-0-674-03896-7
Library of Congress Classification HB145.I75 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification 330.0151

ABOUT THIS BOOK | REVIEWS | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK

This solutions manual is a valuable companion volume to the classic textbook Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics by Nancy L. Stokey, Robert E. Lucas, Jr., and Edward C. Prescott. The exercises in the Stokey et al. book are integral to the text, and thus, a reader cannot fully appreciate the text without understanding the results developed in the exercises. This manual provides detailed answers to the central exercises in Recursive Methods.

The authors’ selection of exercises is designed to maximize the reader’s understanding of Recursive Methods. Solutions are presented to every question in the core chapters on recursive methods, as well as most questions from the chapters on mathematical background. Some questions from the chapters on applications of these techniques to economic models have been reserved so as to provide instructors with a crucial “test bank” of questions.

Efficient and lucid in approach, this manual will greatly enhance the value of Recursive Methods as a text for self-study.

REVIEWS

[Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics] is a tour de force. The authors present a unified approach to the techniques and applications of recursive economic theory. The presentations of discrete-time dynamic programming and of Markov processes are authoritative. There is a wide-ranging series of examples drawn from all branches of the discipline, but with special emphasis on macroeconomics. In the short run, the book will be a vital reference in any advanced course in macroeconomic theory. In the long run, it may help to remove the traditional boundaries between microeconomic theory and macroeconomic theory.
-- Andrew Caplin, Columbia University

[Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics] is a wonderful collection of results on the techniques of dynamic programming with great applications to economics written by giants in the field.
-- Sanford J. Grossman, University of Pennsylvania

A magnificent work that is bound to have immense influence on the ways economists think about dynamic systems for many years to come. My own guess is that [Recursive Methods in Economic Dynamics] will eventually acquire the stature, say, of Hicks’s Value and Capital or Samuelson’s Foundations.
-- Thomas J. Sargent, The Hoover Institution

TABLE OF CONTENTS






1 Introduction                                            1

2 An Overview                                             3

3 Mathematical Preliminaries                              20

4 Dynamic Programming under Certainty                     42

5 Applications of Dynamic Programming under Certainty    53

6 Deterministic Dynamics                                  80

7 Measure Theory and Integration                          98

8 Markov Processes                                       131

9 Stochastic Dynamic Programming                         147

10 Applications of Stochastic Dynamic Programming         171

11 Strong Convergence of Markov Processes                 190

12 Weak Convergence of Markov Processes                   198

13 Applications of Convergence Results for Markov Processes  212

14 Laws of Large Numbers                                  234

15 Pareto Optima and Competitive Equilibria               240




16 Applications of Equilibrium Theory                         253

17 Fixed-Point Arguments                                      270

18 Equilibria in Systems with Distortions                     284

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