Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword by Eugene Silberberg
- Preface
- 1 Essential Elements of Continuous Time Dynamic Optimization
- 2 Necessary Conditions for a Simplified Control Problem
- 3 Concavity and Sufficiency in Optimal Control Problems
- 4 The Maximum Principle and Economic Interpretations
- 5 Linear Optimal Control Problems
- 6 Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for a General Class of Control Problems
- 7 Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Isoperimetric Problems
- 8 Economic Characterization of Reciprocal Isoperimetric Problems
- 9 The Dynamic Envelope Theorem and Economic Interpretations
- 10 The Dynamic Envelope Theorem and Transversality Conditions
- 11 Comparative Dynamics via Envelope Methods
- 12 Discounting, Current Values, and Time Consistency
- 13 Local Stability and Phase Portraits of Autonomous Differential Equations
- 14 Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Infinite Horizon Control Problems
- 15 The Neoclassical Optimal Economic Growth Model
- 16 A Dynamic Limit Pricing Model of the Firm
- 17 The Adjustment Cost Model of the Firm
- 18 Qualitative Properties of Infinite Horizon Optimal Control Problems with One State Variable and One Control Variable
- 19 Dynamic Programming and the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation
- 20 Intertemporal Duality in the Adjustment Cost Model of the Firm
- Index
- References
2 - Necessary Conditions for a Simplified Control Problem
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword by Eugene Silberberg
- Preface
- 1 Essential Elements of Continuous Time Dynamic Optimization
- 2 Necessary Conditions for a Simplified Control Problem
- 3 Concavity and Sufficiency in Optimal Control Problems
- 4 The Maximum Principle and Economic Interpretations
- 5 Linear Optimal Control Problems
- 6 Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for a General Class of Control Problems
- 7 Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Isoperimetric Problems
- 8 Economic Characterization of Reciprocal Isoperimetric Problems
- 9 The Dynamic Envelope Theorem and Economic Interpretations
- 10 The Dynamic Envelope Theorem and Transversality Conditions
- 11 Comparative Dynamics via Envelope Methods
- 12 Discounting, Current Values, and Time Consistency
- 13 Local Stability and Phase Portraits of Autonomous Differential Equations
- 14 Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Infinite Horizon Control Problems
- 15 The Neoclassical Optimal Economic Growth Model
- 16 A Dynamic Limit Pricing Model of the Firm
- 17 The Adjustment Cost Model of the Firm
- 18 Qualitative Properties of Infinite Horizon Optimal Control Problems with One State Variable and One Control Variable
- 19 Dynamic Programming and the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation
- 20 Intertemporal Duality in the Adjustment Cost Model of the Firm
- Index
- References
Summary
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Foundations of Dynamic Economic AnalysisOptimal Control Theory and Applications, pp. 24 - 51Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005
References
Chiang, A. C. (1984, 3rd Ed.), Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics (New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc.)
Chiang, A. C. (1992), Elements of Dynamic Optimization (New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc.)
Kamien, M. I. and Schwartz, N. L. (1991, 2nd Ed.), Dynamic Optimization: The Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control in Economics and Management (New York: Elsevier Science Publishing Co., Inc.)
Protter, M. H. and Morrey, C. B. (1991, 2nd Ed.), A First Course in Real Analysis (New York: Springer-Verlag, Inc.)
Taylor, A. E. and Mann, W. R. (1983, 3rd Ed.), Advanced Calculus (aNew York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.)