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Bubbles in Prices of Exhaustible Resources

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Boyan Jovanovic

NBER Working Paper No. 13320
Issued in August 2007
NBER Program(s):   PR   EEE

Aside from the equilibrium that Hotelling (1931) displayed, his model of non-renewable resources also contains a continuum of bubble equilibria. In all the equilibria the price of the resource rises at the rate of interest. In a bubble equilibrium, however, the consumption of the resource peters out, and a positive fraction of the original stock continues to trade forever. And that may well be happening in the market for high-end Bordeaux wines.

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