In this paper we study a simple endogenous growth model in which the two engines of growth are the exogenous technical progress in dematerialization and the accumulation of a renewable natural resource. The model is also labeled as been "endogenous" as the rate of growth of natural capital is...

<p> Over the years "S-shaped" evolutions have regularly been incorporated in economic models, and indeed in those of other sciences, by way of the logistic or Gompertz equations. However, both equations have noteworthy shortcomings when fitting some empirical features of economic growth: the...</p>

This paper proposes conditions for the existence and uniqueness of solutions to systems of linear differential or algebraic equations with delays or advances, in which some variables may be non-predetermined. These conditions represent the counterpart to the Blanchard and Kahn conditions for the...