Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/107454 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
TUC Working Papers in Economics No. 13
Publisher: 
Technische Universität Clausthal, Abteilung für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Clausthal-Zellerfeld
Abstract: 
In 1931 Harold Hotelling published his seminal contribution to the economic theory of exhaustible resources. His major insight states that the prices of exhaustible resources - more specifically the scarcity rent - will rise at the rate of interest, and consumption will decline over time. The equilibrium implies social optimality. However, empirical analysis shows that market prices of exhaustible resources rarely follow the predicted pattern. Yet our experimental investigation provides support for the position that the Hotelling rule is relevant for the long term development of resource prices.
Subjects: 
Exhaustible resource
Hotelling rule
Intertemporal Allocation Problem
Continuous Double Auction
Experiment
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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