Background question: Suppose there is a nonrenewable resource with inverse demand function p= 30-0.8q and with marginal extraction costs (MEC)= 8. The resource stock, S is finite and = 35 units. Suppose the time horizon is 2 periods and the discount rate is r= 8%. What quantity should be extracted in each period? What is the optimal price of the resource in the 2 periods? Please answer this!Following Hotelling, we might expect the real price of nonrenewable resources to increase continually over time, as resource stocks are depleted. But empirical evidence for a number of nonrenewable (mineral) resources indicates that their prices over the past century have not been increasing monotonically. Instead the price paths for a number of nonrenewable resources have been “U-shaped”. Provide an explanation for what’s going on. i.e. resolve this apparent anomaly between theory and observation- why would the price of these resources be driven down instead of increasing as the theory predicts?
Background question: Suppose there is a nonrenewable resource with inverse demand function p= 30-0.8q and with marginal extraction costs (MEC)= 8. The resource stock, S is finite and = 35 units. Suppose the time horizon is 2 periods and the discount rate is r= 8%. What quantity should be extracted in each period? What is the optimal price of the resource in the 2 periods?
Please answer this!Following Hotelling, we might expect the real price of nonrenewable resources to increase continually over time, as resource stocks are depleted. But empirical evidence for a number of nonrenewable (mineral) resources indicates that their prices over the past century have not been increasing monotonically. Instead the price paths for a number of nonrenewable resources have been “U-shaped”. Provide an explanation for what’s going on. i.e. resolve this apparent anomaly between theory and observation- why would the price of these resources be driven down instead of increasing as the theory predicts?
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