Abstract
Many important problems in agricultural and natural resource economics concern an intertemporal choice between alternate dynamic systems. This significance has motivated a theoretical literature generalizing the necessary conditions of optimal control theory to multiple-phase problems. However, gaining detailed insight into their practical management is difficult because general numerical solution methods are not available. This paper resolves this deficiency through the development of a flexible and efficient computational algorithm based on a set of necessary conditions derived for finite-time, multiple-phase systems. Its effectiveness is demonstrated in an application to a nontrivial crop rotation problem.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 109-129 |
| Journal | Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 2009 |
