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; Hartwick rule ; capital ; sustainable consumption ; fractionalization ; seepage ; insecure property rights ; differential game … with insecure property rights, we analyze how resources are transformed into productive capital to sustain consumption. We … allow property rights to improve as the country transforms natural resources into capital. The ensuing power struggle about …
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with insecure property rights, we analyze how resources are transformed into productive capital to sustain consumption. We … allow property rights to improve as the country transforms natural resources into capital. The ensuing power struggle about … result, the country substitutes away from resources to capital too rapidly and invests more than predicted by the Hartwick …
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physical and natural capital. Since these two types of capital are used jointly in the industry's production process, the firms … face a dual investment decision, whereby they have to decide on the investment into both types of capital simultaneously … then shown that the form of capital aggregation in national accounting can lead to an underestimation of the effect of …
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I offer an approach linking a welfare criterion to the “sustainable development opportunities” of the economy. This implies a dependence of a criterion on the information about the current state. I consider the problem for the Dasgupta-Heal-Solow-Stiglitz model with externalities. The...
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The question of formulation of a social planner criterion for an imperfect economy is examined using an example of a polluting economy negatively affected by growing temperature. Imperfection of the economy is expressed here in deviations from the optimal initial state. It is shown that a...
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unified framework that explicitly considers augmentable man-made capital, exhaustible resource reserves, and accumulative … for any given man-made capital and resource reserves, resource extraction flows generated in optimal growth with both … of pollution externality resulting from resource extraction reduces the growth rate of consumption if man-made capital …
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There has been widespread debate about whether the way in which we measure economic activity is fit for purpose in the twenty-first century. One aspect of this debate is to move away from measuring a nation's income (GDP) towards monitoring a nation's assets (their inclusive wealth), as a better...
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A model of optimal discounting in presence of non renewable resource extraction is presented here. By means of a two-step optimal control problem, we derive the determinants of the social discount rate that a hypothetical social planner should set to drive the economy towards a path where...
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In this paper we discuss the influence of using different production functions on modeling the resource extraction rates and economic growth. The focus is set on the modeling of the production sector, which requires either non-renewable resources, renewable resources or a combination of both...
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The paper considers the process of discovery for subsoil resources, including both hard minerals and hydrocarbons and estimates its magnitude in recent years, as derived from the sum of extraction and changes in proven reserves. Spurred on by technology change and strong market conditions,...
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