Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/171534 
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Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Working Paper Series No. 08/91
Publisher: 
ETH Zurich, CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research, Zurich
Abstract: 
We study the optimal control of a pollutant that accumulates with a delay.We find that optimal paths are, in general, non-monotonic and oscillatory, but monotonic if the objective function is additively separable. Hence, using additively separable objective functions as an approximation to a general objective function may be a misspecification. With a numerical example we illustrate that an additively separable approximation performs considerably worse in delayed compared to instantaneous stock accumulation.
Subjects: 
additively separable objective
approximated objective
delayed optimal control
optimal pollution control
JEL: 
Q50
C61
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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