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Adelman's Rule and the Petroleum Firm

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  • Robert D. Cairns and Graham A. Davis

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Observing that net prices do not rise as predicted and that resource stocks are not fixed, Adelman questions Hotelling's model of an exhaustible resource. He cites a rule of thumb for valuing oil reserves which is about onehalf that given by the Hotelling valuation principle. We apply an optimization model to a stylized characterization of an oil reservoir. Adelman's valuation rule is confirmed. An r-percent rule emerges as well, but it is not Hotelling's rule. We end the paper with our interpretation of Hotelling's rule. We also consider the role of investment in augmenting the quantities of a resource currently extracted.

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  • Robert D. Cairns and Graham A. Davis, 2001. "Adelman's Rule and the Petroleum Firm," The Energy Journal, International Association for Energy Economics, vol. 0(Number 3), pages 31-54.
    • Handle: RePEc:aen:journl:2001v22-03-a02
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