| Article ID: | iaor1993711 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 17 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 572 |
| End Page Number: | 580 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1992 |
| Journal: | Mathematics of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Balder Erik J. |
| Keywords: | programming: markov decision |
A new kind of existence result for stochastic dynamic programming, without explicit compactness conditions, is obtained by working with a new coercivity condition for the reward functions.