Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/92984 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Bonn Econ Discussion Papers No. 12/2013
Publisher: 
University of Bonn, Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE), Bonn
Abstract: 
We add an extractive sector to an endogenous growth model of expanding varieties and directed technological change. Extractive firms reduce the stock of non-renewable resources through extraction, but also increase the stock through R&D investment in extraction technology. Our model replicates long-term trends in non-renewable resource markets, namely stable prices and exponentially increasing extraction, for which we present data from 1792 to 2009. The model suggests that the development of new extraction technologies neutralizes the increasing demand for non-renewable resources in industrializing countries like China in the long term.
Subjects: 
Non-renewable resources
endogenous growth
extraction technology
JEL: 
O30
O41
Q30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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