Published March 1980
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Cooperative Institutions for Sharing in the Oil Industry
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- Isaac, R. Mark
Chicago
Abstract
Exploration for oil and natural gas often produces an information externality for other resource owners. In isolation, this arrangement can lead to suboptimal exploration patterns. However, private institutions have evolved in the oil industry to provide markets for the external information. In this paper, the exploration process is modeled in a game theoretic framework in which the existence and performance of the private trading institutions are examined.
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This research was written partly while the author was funded by the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and partly while funded by the Caltech Energy Policy Project. Many helpful comments were received from Professors John Ferejohn, Roger Noll, and James Quirk, and from the Economic Theory Workshop.Attached Files
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- John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
- Caltech Energy Policy Project
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- Social Science Working Papers
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- Social Science Working Paper
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- 308