User cost in oil production
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Author(s)
Adelman, Morris Albert
DeSilva, Harindar
Koehn, Michael F.
Date Issued
1990
Publisher
MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research
Series/Report no.
Working paper (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Energy Policy Research) ; MIT-CEPR 90-020.
Abstract
The assumption of an initial fixed mineral stock is superfluous and wrong. User cost (resource rent) in mineral production is the present value of expected increases in development cost. It can be measured as the difference between in-ground market value and development cost, or estimated approximately from current development cost. For private or national-income accounting, mineral reserves should be treated as a renewable inventory. Adjustment for change in inventory may increase or decrease the income of a mineral producer, but an increase is more likely.
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