Optimal Policies in the Dasgupta—Heal—Solow—Stiglitz Model under Nonconstant Returns to Scale

Aseev, S., Besov, K., & Kaniovski, S. (2019). Optimal Policies in the Dasgupta—Heal—Solow—Stiglitz Model under Nonconstant Returns to Scale. Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics 304 (1) 74-109. 10.1134/S0081543819010061.

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Abstract

The paper offers a complete mathematically rigorous analysis of the welfare-maximizing capital investment and resource depletion policies in the Dasgupta—Heal—Solow—Stiglitz model with capital depreciation and any returns to scale. We establish a general existence result and show that an optimal admissible policy may not exist if the output elasticity of the resource equals one. We characterize the optimal policies by applying an appropriate version of the Pontryagin maximum principle for infinite-horizon optimal control problems. We also discuss general methodological pitfalls arising in infinite-horizon optimal control problems for economic growth models, which are not paid due attention in the economic literature so that the results presented there often seem not to be rigorously justified. We finish the paper with an economic interpretation and a discussion of the welfare-maximizing policies.

Item Type:	Article
Research Programs:	Advanced Systems Analysis (ASA)
Depositing User:	Luke Kirwan
Date Deposited:	11 Jun 2019 09:25
Last Modified:	27 Aug 2021 17:31
URI:	https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/15946

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