Dynamic Behavior of Oil Importers and Exporters Under Uncertainty

Lucas Bretschger and Alexandra Vinogradova ()
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Alexandra Vinogradova: CER-ETH

A chapter in Dynamic Optimization in Environmental Economics, 2014, pp 195-213 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We consider long-run incentives for oil-importing and -exporting countries when the arrival of a backstop technology is uncertain. Oil importers invest in research and development to avoid their dependence on foreign oil; the arrival of the oil substitute is modeled with a Poisson process. The optimum resource extraction path is determined by the optimization of oil exporters, which take the Poisson rate as exogenously given. We provide clear-cut solutions of the optimization plans for both types of countries. We find that the optimal consumption rate of oil importers may be either constant or falling during substitute development; it is a decreasing function of the oil price. When the substitute arrives, the rate of resource depletion jumps down and the depletion pace during the post R&D phase is slower than during the R&D phase, provided that the Poisson arrival rate is sufficiently large. We also show under which conditions there is never strategic behavior and when strategic behavior may take place.

Keywords: Optimal Investment; Investment Rate; Technological Breakthrough; International Energy Agency; Investment Expenditure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-54086-8_9

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