Resource Depletion Under Technological Uncertainty

DOI10.2307/1911128zbMath0446.90021OpenAlexW4252993431MaRDI QIDQ3892031

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Partha Dasgupta

Publication date: 1981

Published in: Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1911128

zbMATH Keywords

technological uncertaintyresource depletioncertainty equivalence results

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Environmental economics (natural resource models, harvesting, pollution, etc.) (91B76)

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