Efficient representation of state spaces for some dynamic models
β Scribed by Gautam Gowrisankaran
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 177 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0165-1889
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β¦ Synopsis
Many important economic problems require computation over state spaces that are not hypercubes. Examples include industry models of multi-product di!erentiated product "rms, Bayesian learning problems with noisy signals and real business cycle models with heterogeneous agents. These problems have not been analyzed partly because of the di$culty in e$ciently representing their state spaces on a computer. I develop a representation algorithm for the state spaces of the above problems, which potentially allows them to be solved with computational methods such as dynamic programming. I "nd that using this representation reduces the computation time and space by several orders of magnitude relative to a namK ve representation.
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