LINKED RECURSIVE PREFERENCES AND OPTIMALITY |
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Authors: | Shlomo Levental Sumit Sinha Mark Schroder |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Statistics and ProbabilityMichigan State University;2. Eli Broad College of Business, Department of FinanceMichigan State University |
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Abstract: | We study a class of optimization problems involving linked recursive preferences in a continuous‐time Brownian setting. Such links can arise when preferences depend directly on the level or volatility of wealth, in principal–agent (optimal compensation) problems with moral hazard, and when the impact of social influences on preferences is modeled via utility (and utility diffusion) externalities. We characterize the necessary first‐order conditions, which are also sufficient under additional conditions ensuring concavity. We also examine applications to optimal consumption and portfolio choice, and applications to Pareto optimal allocations. |
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Keywords: | BSDE recursive preferences translation‐invariant preferences team contract Pareto optimality behavioral contract theory optimization |
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