The authors consider a one-sector nonclassical model of optimal economic growth, characterized by a convex-concave production function. They provide, in a dynamic-programming context, a characterization of all local (interior) maximum of the miximand of the Bellman equation. These conditions are...

We examine a monopoly facing an uncertain demand and maximizing profits over a two-period horizon. Conditions are developed under which the firm will find it optimal to "experiment," or adjust initial prices or quantities away from their myopically optimal level in order to increase the...