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Efficiency-Inducing Taxation for a Monopolistically Supplied Depletable Resource

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Ted Bergstrom (University of California, Santa Barbara)
John Cross (University of Michigan)
Dick Porter (University of Michigan)

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We show that for a depletable resource, if the competitive time path of prices is known, and if the profit function is concave, then there is an easily described time path of taxes and/or subsidies that would induce a monopolist to follow an efficient time path of extraction.

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Paper provided by Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara in its series University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series with number 1981A.

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Date of creation: 01 Jul 1981
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Keywords: Depletable resources; monopoly; optimal taxation;

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