Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/74266 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 96.2005
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
This paper extends Turing analysis to standard recursive optimal control frameworks in economics and applies it to dynamic bioeconomic problems where the interaction of coupled economic and ecological dynamics under optimal control over space creates (or destroys) spatial heterogeneity. We show how our approach reduces the analysis to a tractable extension of linearization methods applied to the spatial analog of the well known costate/state dynamics. We explicitly show the existence of a non-empty Turing space of diffusive instability by developing a linear-quadratic approximation of the original non-linear problem. We apply our method to a bioeconomic problem, but the method has more general economic applications where spatial considerations and pattern formation are important. We believe that the extension of Turing analysis and the theory associated with the dispersion relationship to recursive infinite horizon optimal control settings is new.
Subjects: 
Spatial analysis
Pattern formation
Turing mechanism
Turing space
Pontryagin’s principle
Bioeconomics
JEL: 
Q2
C6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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