Optimal Excise Taxes in Exhaustible Resource Exploitation

John M. Hartwick

Working Papers from Queen's University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Public authorities are charged with raising Z dollars, in present value, from a competitive industry exploiting an exhaustible resource. We derive Ramsey-type excise tax rules. The L.C. Gray case of a single mine is investigated as is the case of an industry experiencing declining quality of minerals.

Date: 1980

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