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Download or read book Vintage Capital in the AK Growth Model written by Giorgio Fabbri and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper deals with an endogenous growth model with vintage capital and, more precisely, with the AK model proposed in [18]. In endogenous growth models the introduction of vintage capital allows to explain some growth facts but strongly increases the mathematical diamp;fficulties. So far, in this approach, the model is studied by the Maximum Principle; here we develop the Dynamic Programming approach to the same problem by obtaining sharper results and we provide more insight about the economic implications of the model. We explicitly amp;find the value function, the closed loop formula that relates capital and investment, the optimal consumption paths and the long run equilibrium. The short run amp;fluctuations of capital and investment andthe relations with the standard AK model are analyzed. Finally the applicability to other models s also discussed.