Economic Applications
Stochastic dynamic programming is a useful tool in understanding decision making under uncertainty. The accumulation of capital stock under uncertainty is one example, often it is used by resource economists to analyze bioeconomic problems where the uncertainty enters in such as weather, etc..
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