Technical change is dynamic, recursive, and endogenous to the economic system. However, empirical studies usually treat technology as exogenous, defining technical change in terms of its end result changes in some production possibilities set. An endogenous view of technical change is necessary...

Intertemporal duality can be used for empirical research to derive a system of optimal choice functions (dynamic factor demands and output supplies) consistent with an explicity dynamic optimization framework While the literature on intertemporal duality focuses on infinite-horizon autonomous...