On a linearization of the recursion $$\varvec{U(x_0,x_1,x_2,\ldots )}\varvec{=\varphi (x_0, U(x_1,x_2,\ldots ))}$$U(x0,x1,x2,…)=φ(x0,U(x1,x2,…)) and its application in economics
2020
Let I be an interval, X be a metric space and
$$\succeq $$
be an order relation on the infinite product
$$X^{\infty }$$
. Let
$$U:X^{\infty }\rightarrow {\mathbb {R}}$$
be a continuous mapping, representing
$$\succeq $$
, that is such that
$$(x_0,x_1,x_2,\ldots )\succeq (y_0,y_1,y_2,\ldots )\Leftrightarrow U(x_0,x_1,x_2,\ldots )\ge U(y_0,y_1,y_2,\ldots )$$
. We interpret X as a space of consumption outcomes and the relation
$$\succeq $$
represents how an individual would rank all consumption sequences. One assumes that U, called the utility function, satisfies the recursion
$$U(x_0,x_1,x_2,\ldots )=\varphi (x_0, U(x_1,x_2,\ldots )),$$
where
$$\varphi :X\times I \rightarrow I$$
is a continuous function strictly increasing in its second variable such that each function
$$\varphi (x,\cdot )$$
has a unique fixed point. We consider an open problem in economics, when the relation
$$\succeq $$
can be represented by another continuous function V satisfying the affine recursion
$$V(x_0,x_1,x_2,\ldots ) = \alpha (x_0)V(x_1,x_2,\ldots )+ \beta (x_0)$$
. We prove that this property holds if and only if there exists a homeomorphic solution of the system of simultaneous affine functional equations
$$ F(\varphi (x,t))=\alpha (x) F(t)+ \beta (x), x \in X, t \in I$$
for some functions
$$\alpha , \beta :X\rightarrow {\mathbb {R}}$$
. We give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of homeomorhic solutions of this system.
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