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Author:Adelman, M. A.
Title:Mineral depletion, with special reference to petroleum
Journal:Review of Economics and Statistics
1990 : FEB, VOL. 72:1, p. 1-10
Index terms:OIL INDUSTRY
MINERALS RESOURCES
MARKETS
MONOPOLY
COMPETITION
PETROLEUM INDUSTRY
Language:eng
Abstract:There is no fixed stock, only a flow into current inventory reserves. Development outlay per added unit of reserves or capacity is also a proxy for finding cost and resource rent. Worldwide stability of development cost shows oil has not become more scarce since 1955. A simple development model explains observed value-price relations. The rate of interest has little net effect upon the optimal rate of reservoir depletion. Competitive mineral markets do not resemble monopolized markets. The expropriation of low-cost oil in the 1970s would have increased depletion under competition monopoly curtailed it.
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