Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/176038 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Texto para discussão No. 555
Publisher: 
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Departamento de Economia, Rio de Janeiro
Abstract: 
The uniform impatience hypothesis, a joint requirement on endowments and preferences, was imposed in the literature to prove equilibrium existence in infinite horizon sequential economies. In this note, we characterize this assumption in terms of asymptotic properties on inter-temporal discount factors.
Subjects: 
Uniform impatience
inter-temporal discounting. JEL Codes: D50
D52.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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