Capital Maintenance versus Technology Adoption under Embodied Technical Progress

Technology Adoption under Uncertain Innovation Progress

Within uncertain technological progress, a firm has to decide when to update its technology and select a new one among a non-decreasing range over time. Under constant return to scale, the best existing technology is implemented. Replacement is triggered not only when the firm operated technology is sufficiently obsolete but also the wedge between the latest and the state of the arts grades is ...

Optimal capital accumulation and embodied technological progress under uncertainty¤

This paper proposes a stochastic model of investment with embodied technological progress, in which ...rms invest not only to expand the capacity as in Pindyck (1988) but also to replace old machines. The scrapping decision or the age of the oldest machine is then endogenous and evolves stochastically. Uncertainty increases the optimal age of the machines in use, and due to uncertainty, not onl...

Embodied technical progress and unemployment

In this paper we build up a canonical vintage capital model with embodied and disembodied technical progress and generalized Nash bargaining in the labor market. First, we handle both types of technical progress as exogenous, but we endogenize them after. In these setups, we comprehensively study the relations between technical progress, unemployment, and job creation and destruction in the sho...

Capital Accumulation and Embodied Technological Progress

This paper combines technology adoption with capital accumulation taking into account technological progress. We model this as a multi-stage optimal control problem and solve it using the corresponding maximum principle. The model with linear revenue can be solved analytically, while the model with market power is solved numerically. We obtain that investment jumps upwards right at the moment t...

Strategic Technology Adoption under Technological Uncertainty