| Article ID: | iaor20002336 |
| Country: | Germany |
| Volume: | 49 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 475 |
| End Page Number: | 482 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1999 |
| Journal: | Mathematical Methods of Operations Research (Heidelberg) |
| Authors: | Nowak A.S. |
We extend a result by Cavazos-Cadena and Lasserre on the existence of strong 1-optimal stationary policies in Markov decision chains with countable state spaces, uniformly ergodic transition probabilities and bounded costs to a larger class of models with unbounded costs and the so-called