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[olg] update on Euler EQ and Log (#503)
Dear John @jstac , I updated the olg.md lecture according to #434. This pull request deals with the last two suggestions in #434. Best, Longye
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by plugging $c_{t+1}$ into the objective function, taking the derivative
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with respect to $c_t$, and setting it to zero.
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This leads to the **Euler equation** of the OLG model, which is
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This leads to the **Euler equation** of the OLG model, which describes the optimal intertemporal consumption dynamics:
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Previously, in our examples, we looked at the case of log utility.
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Log utility is a rather special case.
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Log utility is a rather special case of CRRA utility with $\gamma \to 1$.
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In this section, we are going to assume that $u(c) = \frac{ c^{1-
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\gamma}-1}{1-\gamma}$, where $\gamma >0, \gamma\neq 1$.

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