The optimal depletion of exhaustible resources: A complete characterization

Resource and Energy Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 612-636

  Benchekroun, Hassan ^a   Withagen, Cees ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dasgupta Heal Solow Stiglitz economy; Exhaustible resources; Exponential integral; Special functions

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; CLOSED FORM SOLUTIONS; DASGUPTA-HEAL-SOLOW-STIGLITZ ECONOMY; EXHAUSTIBLE RESOURCES; EXPONENTIAL INTEGRALS; INITIAL VALUES; MAXIMIN; NON-RENEWABLE RESOURCE; OPTIMAL CONSUMPTION; OPTIMAL TRAJECTORIES; RATE OF CONSUMPTION; SPECIAL FUNCTIONS; STIGLITZ;

OPTIMIZATION;

CAPITAL; NONRENEWABLE RESOURCE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESOURCE ECONOMY; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 79957614210     PISSN: 09287655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2011.01.005     Document Type: Article

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