Econometrica

Journal Of The Econometric Society

An International Society for the Advancement of Economic
Theory in its Relation to Statistics and Mathematics

Edited by: Guido W. Imbens • Print ISSN: 0012-9682 • Online ISSN: 1468-0262

Econometrica: May, 1977, Volume 45, Issue 4

Linear Quadratic Control Theory for Models with Long Lags

https://doi.org/0012-9682(197705)45:4<905:LQCTFM>2.0.CO;2-M
p. 905-918

Alfred Lorn Norman, Woo Sik Jung

A new formulation of the linear quadratic control, LQC, problem with known coefficients, called the LAG, is presented. The LAG generally does not generate a recursive Ricatti system. For models with long lags an important issue is whatformulation leads to an efficient algorithm both with respect to storage and speed. At present the most efficient known formulation is the minimum state variable representation, MSV. The LAG requires much less storage than the MSV as the LAG does not require conversion to state space representation. For short time horizons the LAG is computationally faster than the MSV. As the time horizon increases, the efficiency of the LAG relative to the MSV declines. Numerical comparisons of the Theil, Chow, MSV, and LAG formulations are shown.


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