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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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; 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095003
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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We consider the Hartwick rule for capital accumulation and resource depletion, provide semantic clarifications and … investigate whether this rule indicates sustainability and requires substitutability between manmade and natural capital. In …
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