The optimal economic lifetime of vintage capital in the presence of operating costs, technological progress, and learning

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 3032-3053

  Goetz, Renan Ulrich ^a,b   Hritonenko, Natali ^c   Yatsenko, Yuri ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b Centre de Referència en Economia Analítica   (Spain)

^c PRAIRIE VIEW A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HOUSTON BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed optimal control; Economic lifetime; Operation and maintenance costs; Technological progress and learning; Vintage capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 48849110386     PISSN: 01651889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

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