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
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- 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
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- Foundations of Dynamic Economic AnalysisOptimal Control Theory and Applications, pp. i - ivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005