Investment in vintage capital

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 551-569

  Jovanovic, Boyan ^a   Yatsenko, Yuri ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOUSTON BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CES function; General equilibrium; Intra firm adoption lags; Optimal control; Technological change; Vintage capital models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858007751     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: 10957235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2010.10.017     Document Type: Article

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