Optimal investments with convex-concave revenue: A focus-node distinction

Optimal Control Applications and Methods

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 147-163

  Hartl, Richard F ^a   Kort, Peter M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Capital accumulation models; Focus; Indeterminacy; Maximum principle; Node optimal investment; Skiba; Thresholds

Indexed keywords

COSTS; INVENTORY CONTROL; INVESTMENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PUBLIC POLICY; SALES;

CAPITAL ACCUMULATION MODELS; INDETERMINACY; NODE OPTIMAL INVESTMENTS;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 4043180611     PISSN: 01432087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/oca.742     Document Type: Article

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