Welfare comparison with Ramsey optimal policy

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Hi Ippei, in your previous post, there shouldn’t be any u(t) because u(t) is observed at the beginning of the period and belongs by assumption to the information set of E_t() If you want the unconditional welfare (a tricky concept), you could do the following include utility = u(y_t), the period utility function, among the variable/equation of the model. This doesn’t generate the same problem as adding the definition of welfare. then you can compute E(W_t) = E(u(y(t)) + \beta E(W_{t+1}) as E…