Stochastic differential utility as the continuous-time limit of recursive utility
Holger Kraft and
Frank Thomas Seifried
No 17, SAFE Working Paper Series from Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE
Abstract:
We establish a convergence theorem that shows that discrete-time recursive utility, as developed by Kreps and Porteus (1978), converges to stochastic differential utility, as introduced by Duffie and Epstein (1992), in the continuous-time limit of vanishing grid size.
Keywords: Stochastic differential utility; recursive utility; convergence; backward stochastic differential equation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D81 D91 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2264293
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