Aggressive oil extraction and precautionary saving: Coping with volatility.

The effects of stochastic oil demand on optimal oil extraction paths and tax, spending and government debt policies are analyzed when the oil demand schedule is linear and preferences quadratic. Without prudence, optimal oil extraction is governed by the Hotelling rule and optimal budgetary policies...

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Main Author: van der Ploeg, F
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2010