Monopolists follow a specific extraction and royalty time path for non-renewable resources
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Economic literature explicitly models and confirms that monopolists follow specific extraction and royalty time paths when managing non-renewable resources, utilizing optimal control frameworks to balance primary extraction and market dynamics.
Evidence for · 2
Recycling and natural resource extraction: Insights from monopoly and social planner perspectives
2025 · cited by 1
Paper 8 investigates optimal extraction strategies and dynamics for monopolists managing natural resources alongside recycling sectors.
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Using optimal control to optimize the extraction rate of a durable non-renewable resource with a monopolistic primary supplier
2021 · cited by 1
Paper 11 uses optimal control theory to model the explicit extraction rate and royalty time path for monopolistic suppliers of non-renewable resources.