TY  - BOOK
AU  - Obstfeld,Maurice
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Intertemporal Dependence, Impatience, and Dynamics
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 1989///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - July 1989; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - This paper develops simple geometric methods for analyzing dynamic behavior in models with intertemporally dependent consumer tastes. Since the preferences studied do not assume time-additivity, they allow the marginal utility of consumption on a given date to vary with consumption on other dates. Intertemporal dependence is induced by the presence of a variable individual rate of time preference. The optimal consumption responses to transitory and anticipated changes in incomes and interest rates are easily derived and are similar in important ways to the responses implied by the standard model with constant time preference. Intuitive explanations of the first-order conditions describing optimal paths are provided.
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w3028
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w3028
ER  -