Analyzing Nonrenewable Resource Supply


Book Description

Originally published in 1984, Douglas A. Bohi and Michael A. Toman have produced a convenient reference source about disparate elements in the theory of nonrenewable resource supply and about general issues that arise when applying dynamic economic analysis. The authors emphasise the inherently dynamic nature of resource supply decisions, the effects of resource depletion on costs and behaviour, and the influence of uncertainty about costs, prices, and reserves. This title will be useful to students interested in environmental studies and economics, practitioners, and others who need to know more about complex interactions of economic forces and the resource base.







Analyzing Nonrenewable Resource Supply


Book Description

Originally published in 1984, Douglas A. Bohi and Michael A. Toman have produced a convenient reference source about disparate elements in the theory of nonrenewable resource supply and about general issues that arise when applying dynamic economic analysis. The authors emphasise the inherently dynamic nature of resource supply decisions, the effects of resource depletion on costs and behaviour, and the influence of uncertainty about costs, prices, and reserves. This title will be useful to students interested in environmental studies and economics, practitioners, and others who need to know more about complex interactions of economic forces and the resource base.







An Analysis of Cartelized Market Structures for Nonrenewable Resources


Book Description

Originally published in 1979. While the theory of non-renewable resources under competitive and monopolistic market regimes have been relatively well developed, almost no attention has been given to the development of a theoretical framework for analysis of the spectrum of mixed market structure between those extremes. The world oil market structure is an example of such an intermediate market structure. The purpose of this title is to develop such a theoretical framework. The study examines non-renewable resource markets in which a profit maximizing producer cartel co-exists with a non-cartel supply sector, which is alternately modelled as consisting of a collection of competitive firms or as exhibiting other exogenously assumed supply behaviours. This title will be of interest to students of environmental economics.







An Analysis of Cartelized Market Structures for Nonrenewable Resources


Book Description

Originally published in 1979. While the theory of non-renewable resources under competitive and monopolistic market regimes have been relatively well developed, almost no attention has been given to the development of a theoretical framework for analysis of the spectrum of mixed market structure between those extremes. The world oil market structure is an example of such an intermediate market structure. The purpose of this title is to develop such a theoretical framework. The study examines non-renewable resource markets in which a profit maximizing producer cartel co-exists with a non-cartel supply sector, which is alternately modelled as consisting of a collection of competitive firms or as exhibiting other exogenously assumed supply behaviours. This title will be of interest to students of environmental economics.




The Supply of Non-Renewable Resources


Book Description

There exists no formal treatment of non-renewable resource (NRR) supply, systematically deriving quantity as function of price. We establish instantaneous restricted (fixed reserves) and unrestricted NRR supply functions. The supply of a NRR at any date and location depends not only on the local contemporary price of the resource but also on prices at all other dates and locations. Besides the usual law of supply, which characterizes the own-price effect, cross-price effects have their own law. They can be decomposed into a substitution effect and a stock compensation effect. We show that the substitution effect always dominates: a price increase at some point in space and time causes NRR supply to decrease at all other points. Our new--although orthodox--setting takes into account not only NRR supply limitations but also the heterogeneity of NRR deposits, and the endogeneity of their development and opening. Our analysis extends to NRRs the partial-equilibrium analysis of demand and supply policies. Thereby, it provides a generalization of results about policy-induced changes on NRR markets. L'offre de ressources non renouvelables. Aucune étude ne caractérise de manière formelle l'offre de ressources non renouvelables (RNR), c'est-à-dire leur quantité produite en fonction de leur prix. Nous établissons les fonctions d'offre restreinte (à réserves données) et non-restreinte des RNR. A chaque date et sur chaque marché, leur offre dépend non seulement du prix courant mais aussi du prix aux autres dates et sur les autres marchés. Au-delà de la loi de l'offre habituelle, qui caractérise l'effet prix propre, les effets prix croisés obéissent à leur propre loi. Ces derniers consistent en un effet substitution et en un effet compensation qui est lié au stock de ressource. Nous montrons que l'effet substitution domine toujours l'effet compensation : un accroissement du prix à une date sur un marché cause une réduction de l'offre d'une RNR aux autres dates et sur les autres marchés. Notre modèle est nouveau bien qu'il soit orthodoxe. Il tient compte non seulement de la disponibilité limitée des RNR, mais aussi de l'hétérogénéité de leurs gisements et du fait que le développement et l'ouverture de ces derniers sont endogènes. Notre analyse étend l'analyse en équilibre partiel des politiques publiques au cas des RNR. Ainsi, elle permet de généraliser des résultats existants quant aux effets des politiques publiques sur les marchés de RNR.




International Energy Economics


Book Description

An international collection of twenty papers with three themes: energy demand, modelling energy supply and models of specific markets.