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Ressources renouvelables et non renouvelables, impatience et progrès technique exogène

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  • Jean-Pierre Amigues
  • Ngo Van Long
  • Michel Moreaux

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There is a large literature on the optimal order of exploitation of natural resources. We explore the impact of specific technical progress that enables the saving of resource inputs in production on the order of exploitation. Models of growth tend to assume uniform and global technical progess. Our model however specifies that technical progress is specific to certain inputs. Under a set of plausible assumptions, we show that, for certain sets of parameter values, it may be optimal to use exclusively at first a non renewable resource, then stop using this resource and switch into a renewable resource, and finally return to the use of the non renewable resource. Il existe une littérature assez abondante sur l'ordre dans lequel une société devrait utiliser ses ressources au cours du temps. Ce que nous voudrions explorer ici c'est l'incidence d'un progrès technique spécifique, permettant d'économiser les quantités de ressources requises par unité de produit, sur l'ordre dans lequel les dites ressources doivent être consommées le long d'un sentier optimal d'évolution de l'économie. Une certaine tradition issue de la théorie de la croissance tend à concevoir le progrès technique comme une amélioration globale de la productivité de tous les facteurs. Le modèle développé ici part au contraire de l'idée qu'il existe un progrès technique spécifique qui vise à améliorer la productivité de tel ou tel facteur. Sous un ensemble d'hypothèses plausibles, on montre que, pour certaines valeurs des paramètres du modèle, la société peut avoir intérêt à consommer d'abord une partie de son stock de ressource non renouvelable pendant un certain temps, puis arrêter d'utiliser cette ressource pour n'utiliser que la ressource renouvelable et enfin utiliser à nouveau la ressource non renouvelable.

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  • Jean-Pierre Amigues & Ngo Van Long & Michel Moreaux, 2004. "Ressources renouvelables et non renouvelables, impatience et progrès technique exogène," CIRANO Working Papers 2004s-07, CIRANO.
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    1. AMIGUES Jean-Pierre & MOREAUX Michel & RICCI Francesco, 2006. "Overcoming the Natural Resource Constraint Through Dedicated R&D Effort with Heterogenous Labor Supply," LERNA Working Papers 06.22.215, LERNA, University of Toulouse.
    2. Jean-Pierre Amigues & Ngo Van Long & Michel Moreaux, 2004. "Overcoming Natural Resource Constraints Through R&D," CIRANO Working Papers 2004s-14, CIRANO.

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    • Q20 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - General
    • Q30 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation - - - General
    • D90 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - General

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