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Optimal Investment in Heterogeneous Capital and Technology Under Restricted Natural Resource

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  • Raouf Boucekkine

    (School of Economics, CNRS and EHESS
    UCLouvain)

  • Natali Hritonenko

    (Prairie View A&M University)

  • Yuri Yatsenko

    (Houston Baptist University)

Abstract

We consider the optimal control of nonlinear integral equations with endogenous delay and state constraints, which describe a developing economy subjected to resource constraints. The economy invests in new resource-efficient technologies, invests in new capital, and scraps obsolete capital. We derive the optimality condition and determine long-term asymptotically exponential trajectories that optimally combine scrapping the dirtiest capital and developing new clean technologies. Next, we study the short-term dynamics of the model and show that it leads to a sustainable growth with active resource constraint.

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  • Raouf Boucekkine & Natali Hritonenko & Yuri Yatsenko, 2014. "Optimal Investment in Heterogeneous Capital and Technology Under Restricted Natural Resource," Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Springer, vol. 163(1), pages 310-331, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:joptap:v:163:y:2014:i:1:d:10.1007_s10957-013-0453-y
    DOI: 10.1007/s10957-013-0453-y
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    2. Yatsenko, Yuri & Hritonenko, Natali, 2020. "Optimal asset replacement: Profit maximization under varying technology," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 228(C).
    3. Aznar-Márquez, J. & Ruiz-Tamarit, J.R., 2017. "Sustainable growth and environmental catastrophes," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 89(C), pages 83-91.
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    5. Natali Hritonenko & Nobuyuki Kato & Yuri Yatsenko, 2017. "Optimal Control of Investments in Old and New Capital Under Improving Technology," Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Springer, vol. 172(1), pages 247-266, January.

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