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In the previous chapters on the models of firms we used STELLA to find the profit-maximizing input and output quantities at a point in time. We ran the models over time as if the firm were able to “feel its way towards the optimum.” Similarly, the auction game was assumed to take place over time, but the decision making itself did not take into account the time over which the decision is made. In contrast to these models, we now turn our attention to the problem of finding an optimal path through time. Specifically, we are interested in how much of a resource to extract at each point in time over the lifetime of a finite, nonrenewable resource.

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Ruth, M., Hannon, B. (1997). Competitive Scarcity. In: Modeling Dynamic Economic Systems. Modeling Dynamic Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2268-2_16

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