Anticipation effects of technological progress on capital accumulation: A vintage capital approach

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 143-164

  Feichtinger, Gustav ^a   Hartl, Richard F ^b   Kort, Peter M ^c,d   Veliov, Vladimir M ^a,e  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^e INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS AND INFORMATICS   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Embodied technological progress; Learning; Maximum principle; Vintage capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 30444445403     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2004.10.001     Document Type: Article

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