For example, much of a university's budget includes expenditures that must be maintained because of implicit and explicit long-term contracts. Similarly, expenditures on consumer durables are also long-term commitments. This paper analyses optimal consumption and investment for agents whose consumption cannot fall over time.
Optimal consumption increases each time that wealth achieves a new maximum.
Optimal investment at a point in time is similar to constant proportions portfolio insurance, but the dynamics are different due to the form of consumption dynamics. Extensions include bounding the rate of decrease in consumption with a constant other than zero and the placement of a bound on the maximal holding of the risky asset as a proportion of wealth. If you experience problems downloading a file check if you have the proper application to view it first. Information about this may be contained in the File-Format links below. Please be patient as the files may be large.