We study the intertemporal utility maximization problem for Hindy- Huang-Kreps utilities. Necessary and sufficient conditions for optimality are given. An explicit solution is provided for a large class of utility functions. In particular, the case of separable power utilities with a finite time...

This abstract will be reformatted upon submission. You don't need to format for line-breaks here!!!!! We extend the analysis of the intertemporal utility maximization problem for Hindy-Huang-Kreps utilities reported in Bank/Riedel(1999) to the stochastic case. Existence and uniqueness of optimal...

Consumption of a good at one point in time is a substitute for consumption of the same good an instant earlier or later. Utility functions which conform to this fact must necessarily be non-time separable, as Hindy, Huang, and Kreps show. When agents' utility functions are non-time separable in...