Integral-Value Models for Outcomes over Continuous Time

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  • Charles M. Harvey
  • Lars Peter Østerdal
Models of preferences between outcomes over continuous time are important for individual, corporate, and social decision making, e.g., medical treatment, infrastructure development, and environmental regulation. This paper presents a foundation for such models. It shows that conditions on preferences between real- or vector-valued outcomes over continuous time are satisfied if and only if the preferences are represented by a value function having an integral form
Original languageEnglish
PublisherDepartment of Economics, University of Copenhagen
Number of pages38
Publication statusPublished - 2007

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