On Coase and Hotelling

It has been long recognized that an exhaustible-resource monopsonist faces a commitment problem similar to that of a durable-good monopolist. Indeed, Hörner and Kamien (2004) demonstrate that the two problems are formally equivalent under full commitment. We show that there is no such equivalence in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Montero, Juan-Pablo, Liski, Matti
Format: Working Paper
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45665