Valuing the Future, Discounting in Random Environments: A Review

We address the process of discounting in random environments which allows to value the far future in economic terms. We review several approaches to the problem regarding different well-established stochastic market dynamics in the continuous-time context and include the Feynman-Kac approach. We also review the relation between bond pricing theory and discount and introduce the market price of risk and the risk neutral measures from an intuitive point of view devoid of excessive formalism. We provide the discount for each economic model and discuss their key results. We finally present a summary of our previous empirical studies on several countries of the long-run discount problem.

Mean-square exponential input-to-state stability of stochastic inertial neural networks

By introducing some parameters perturbed by white noises, we propose a class of stochastic inertial neural networks in random environments. Constructing two Lyapunov–Krasovskii functionals, we establish the mean-square exponential input-to-state stability on the addressed model, which generalizes and refines the recent results. In addition, an example with numerical simulation is carried out to support the theoretical findings.