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(econ) Currently the price of a nonrenewable natural resource is $50 per unit while the MEC is $20 per unit.?

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a) What is the MUC today?
b) If the interest rate is 10%, what will be the MUC each year over the next 5 years?
c) Using your answer to part b and assuming that the MEC will be constant, find the dynamically efficient price each year for the next 5 years.
d) Suppose there is an alternative technology that costs $65 per unit. What will be the dynamically efficient price of this non-resource in each of those five years?
e) Now assume the MEC increases by $3 per unit each year. Repeat part d and find the dynamically efficient price over the next five years.
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a) Environemntal and Natural Resource Economics
b) I have read the suggested chapter and attended every lecture with notes recorded.
c) For part a) I came up with P=MEC+MUC, so 50 = 20 + MUC >>> MUC = 30.
For part b) I got Year1 30/(1.10^1)=27.27, Y2 30/(1.10^2)=24.79, Y3 30/(1.10^3)=22.54, Y4 30/(1.10^4)=20.49, Y5 30/(1.10^5)=18.63. But, he said it was wrong and to follow Hotellings Rule. He said the MUC for part b should increase and not decrease.

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