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The economic growth theory analyses which factors affect economic growth
and tries to analyze how it can last. A popular neoclassical growth model
is the Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans model, which aims to determine how much
of its income a nation or an economy should save in order to maximize its
welfare.
In this thesis, we present and analyze an extended capital accumulation equation of a spatial version of the Ramsey model, balancing diffusive and agglomerative effects. We model the capital mobility in space via a nonlocal
diffusion operator which allows for jumps of the capital stock from one lo-
cation to an other. Moreover, this operator smooths out heterogeneities in
the factor distributions slower, which generated a more realistic behavior of
capital flows. In addition to that, we introduce an endogenous productivity-
production operator which depends on time and on the capital distribution
in space. This operator models the technological progress of the economy.
The resulting mathematical model is an optimal control problem under a
semilinear parabolic integro-differential equation with initial and volume constraints, which are a nonlocal analog to local boundary conditions, and box-constraints on the state and the control variables. In this thesis, we consider
this problem on a bounded and unbounded spatial domain, in both cases with
a finite time horizon. We derive existence results of weak solutions for the
capital accumulation equations in both settings and we proof the existence
of a Ramsey equilibrium in the unbounded case. Moreover, we solve the
optimal control problem numerically and discuss the results in the economic
context.