Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192715 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 733
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
In a non-renewable resource market with imperfect competition, the resource owners' supply is governed both by current demand and by the resource rent. New information regarding future market conditions will typically affect the resource rent and hence current supply. Bleaker prospects will tend to accelerate extraction. We show, however, that for resource owners with substantial resource stocks, a more pessimistic outlook may in fact slow down early extraction. The explanation is that for players with extensive resource stocks, the resource rent is limited and supply is more driven by current market considerations. As players with less resources accelerate their supply, it may be optimal for the large resource owners to cut back on their supply. We illustrate this in the case of the European gas market, finding that the shale gas revolution may lead to an accelerated supply by most gas producers, but a postponement of Russian gas extraction.
Subjects: 
Exhaustible Resource Extraction
Cournot Competition
Natural Gas.
JEL: 
Q31
Q41
D43
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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