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Hotelling's Rule is helpful in determining the price of oil
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CONTESTED
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While Hotelling's Rule is traditionally used in some economic models and price forecasting frameworks for non-renewable resources, extensive empirical research frequently challenges its validity, showing that real-world oil and mineral prices often fail to follow its theoretical trajectory.

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  • A review on application of nanoparticles for EOR purposes: h · peer-reviewed · supports · weight 1.3 · 2023
  • Harnessing Big Data for Price Predictions in Oil and Gas Mar · peer-reviewed · supports · weight 1.05 · 2024
  • Whither Hotelling: Tests of the Theory of Exhaustible Resour · peer-reviewed · refutes · weight 1.6 · 2009
  • The Hotelling rule in non‐renewable resource economics: A re · peer-reviewed · refutes · weight 1.3 · 2020
  • Non-Renewable Resources and Sustainable Resource Extraction: · peer-reviewed · refutes · weight 1.05 · 2022
Evidence for · 2
A review on application of nanoparticles for EOR purposes: history and current challenges.
2023 · cited by 18
This study incorporates the Hotelling method as an appropriate economic model for evaluating the enhanced oil recovery (EOR) process.
Evidence against · 3
Whither Hotelling: Tests of the Theory of Exhaustible Resources
2009 · cited by 68
The review of the empirical literature on the Hotelling model highlights that real-world tests frequently fail to match theoretical predictions.
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More for · 1
Harnessing Big Data for Price Predictions in Oil and Gas Markets
2024 · cited by 2
The research utilizes the theory of exhaustible resources as a pivotal forecast theory for modeling and predicting future prices of oil and gas resources.
More against · 2
The Hotelling rule in non‐renewable resource economics: A reassessment
2020 · cited by 33
This reassessment notes that empirical tests conclude the Hotelling rule lacks validity and requires strong amendments to describe long-term behavior.
Non-Renewable Resources and Sustainable Resource Extraction: An Empirical Test of the Hotelling Rule’s Significance to Gold Extraction in South Africa
2022 · cited by 7
An empirical test on non-renewable resource extraction found no significant relationship between interest rates and prices, indicating the rule does not hold.
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