Optimal policy identification: Insights from the German electricity market

JK Herrmann, I Savin - Technological forecasting and social change, 2017 - Elsevier
The diffusion of renewable electricity technologies is widely considered as crucial for
establishing a sustainable energy system in the future. However, the required transition is …

Approximately optimal control of nonlinear dynamic stochastic problems with learning: the OPTCON algorithm

D Blueschke, V Blueschke-Nikolaeva, R Neck - Algorithms, 2021 - mdpi.com
OPTCON is an algorithm for the optimal control of nonlinear stochastic systems which is
particularly applicable to economic models. It delivers approximate numerical solutions to …

Optimal fiscal policy in times of uncertainty: a stochastic control approach

R Neck, D Blueschke, V Blueschke-Nikolaeva - Empirica, 2024 - Springer
This paper deals with the possibilities of designing optimal fiscal policy under uncertainty.
First, different forms of uncertainty are discussed for economic policy analysis and design …

New insights into optimal control of nonlinear dynamic econometric models: Application of a heuristic approach

D Blueschke, V Blueschke-Nikolaeva, I Savin - Journal of Economic …, 2013 - Elsevier
Optimal control of dynamic econometric models has a wide variety of applications including
economic policy relevant issues. There are several algorithms extending the basic case of a …

Lost in translation: Explicitly solving nonlinear stochastic optimal control problems using the median objective value

I Savin, D Blueschke - Computational Economics, 2016 - Springer
Policy makers constantly face optimal control problems: what controls allow them to achieve
certain targets in, eg, GDP growth or inflation? Conventionally this is done by applying …

Optimal macroeconomic policies in a financial and economic crisis: a case study for Slovenia

R Neck, D Blueschke, K Weyerstrass - Empirica, 2011 - Springer
In this paper, we study different and, in particular,“optimal” reactions of fiscal (and to some
extent monetary) policies to the financial and economic crisis of 2007–2009 in Slovenia, a …

Learning about learning in dynamic economic models

DA Kendrick, HM Amman, MP Tucci - Handbook of Computational …, 2014 - Elsevier
This chapter of the Handbook of Computational Economics is mostly about research on
active learning and is confined to discussion of learning in dynamic models in which the …

No such thing as a perfect hammer: comparing different objective function specifications for optimal control

D Blueschke, I Savin - Central European Journal of Operations Research, 2017 - Springer
Linear-quadratic (LQ) optimization is a fairly standard technique in the optimal control
framework. LQ is very well researched, and there are many extensions for more …

A nonlinear optimal control approach to stabilization of a macroeconomic development model

G Rigatos, P Siano, T Ghosh, D Sarno - AIP Conference Proceedings, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
A nonlinear optimal (H-infinity) control approach is proposed for the problem of stabilization
of the dynamics of a macroeconomic development model that is known as the Grossman …

How should Slovenia design fiscal policies in the government debt crisis?

D Blueschke, K Weyerstrass, R Neck - Emerging Markets Finance …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
We investigate how fiscal policies should be designed in Slovenia during the next few years.
Using the SLOPOL model, an econometric model of the Slovenian economy, we analyze the …