Dynamic Policies of the Firm

The book is a contribution to the dynamic theory of the firm. It provides production, finance and investment decision rules, taking into account subjects like adjustment costs, financial constraints, costs of environmental pollution, technological progress, business cycles and uncertain demand.

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A. State of the Art.- 1. Introduction.- 2. A Survey of Dynamic Theories of the Firm.- 3. Some Predecessors.- B. Investment and Finance.- 4. A Dynamic Model of the Firm.- 5. Investment and Finance.- C. Production.- 6. Production, Employment, Finance and Investment.- 7. A Further Analysis.- 8. Production, Pollution, Finance and Investment.- D. Dynamic and Risky Environment.- 9. Production, Finance and Investment During a Business Cycle.- 10. Production and Investment with Technological Progress.- 11. Production, Finance and Investment When Demand is Uncertain.- 12. Epilogue.- Appendix 1. An Interpretation of the Maximum Principle.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Technical terms.- 3. The Maximum Principle of Pontryagin.- 4. Mixed control constraints.- 5. Pure state constraints.- 6. Problems with infinite horizon.- Appendix 2. Solutions of the Models of Chapter 3.- 1. Introduction.- 2. A general solution procedure.- 3. The model of Jorgenson.- 4. The model of Gould.- 5. The model of Ludwig.- 6. The model of Lesourne and Leban.- 7. The model (s) of Leban and Lesourne.- 8. The model of Nickell.- 9. Summary.- Appendix 3. Solution of the Model of Chapter 4: A Step by Step Description.- 1. A reduced form of the model.- 2. Optimality conditions.- 3. Infeasible paths.- 4. Feasible paths.- 5. Final paths.- 6. Coupling procedure.- 6.1. Strings ending with path 5.- 6.2. Strings ending with path 4.- 7. Summary.- Appendix 4. Solutions of the Models in Chapters 5, 6 and 8: The Main Lines.- 1. Personal taxation model.- 2. NPV formulas of the model of Chapter 4.- 3. Convex adjustment costs.- 3.1. Optimal trajectories.- 3.2. Net present value formulas.- 3.3. Extension of the planning period.- 3.4. Infinite time horizon.- 4. The model of Chapter 6.- 5. Pollution model.- 5.1. Reformulation of the model.- 5.2. Solution procedure.- Appendix 5. Specific Problems in Solving the Models of Chapters 9 and 10.- 1. Solution of the model of Chapter 9.- 1.1. Optimality conditions.- 1.2. String 1002D2-1.- 1.3. String 1-2-3-2-1.- 2. The Maximum Principle for the model in Chapter 10.- 2.1. The model.- 2.2. The trie.- 2.3. Necessary optimality conditions for a special case.- 2.4. Necessary conditions for the general model.- 3. Existence of steady state solution in Section 10.4.- Appendix 6. Stochastic Dynamic Programming and the Additional Solutions and Mathematical Proofs of Chapter 11.- 1. Stochastic dynamic programming.- 2. Additional solutions and mathematical proofs.- List of Symbols.- References.- Author Index.