Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/52473 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3608
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper develops a model in which supply of a non-renewable resource can adjust through two margins: the rate of depletion and the rate of field opening. Faster depletion of existing fields means that less of the resource can ultimately be extracted, and optimal depletion of open fields follows a (modified) Hotelling rule. Opening a new field involves sinking a capital cost, and the timing of field opening is chosen to maximize the present value of the field. Output dynamics depend on both depletion and field opening, and supply responses to price changes are studied. In contrast to Hotelling, the long run equilibrium rate of growth of prices is independent of the rate of interest, depending instead on characteristics of demand and geologically determined supply.
Subjects: 
non-renewable resource
depletion
exhaustible
Hotelling
fossil fuel
carbon tax
JEL: 
D90
Q30
Q40
Q50
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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