Euler Equation

 

We consider the following maximization problem

 

 

subject to

 

in aggregate variables as in 0515 and 0616.

 

Suppose Lt=1 all the time for simplicity. In addition, we have

 

and

 

where  and  are error terms with mean zero.

On the background, we assume

 

  for any

 

The Bellman equation with expectation is

 

 

 

Now we calculate Euler equation.

 

(1)   FOC w.r.t. K’: 

 

 or

 

(2)   Envelope condition(FOC w.r.t. K):

 

 

(3)   Shift the envelope condition ahead by one period:

 


(4)   Substitute the first one into this:

 

 

Thus

 

 

When , it is going to be

 

 

At steady state,  and  

 

So

That is

Thus

   evaluated at some Q and A.