Federal financial incentives to induce early experience producing unconventional liquid fuels
The government, as a principal, may seek to induce a private investor, as an agent, to build and operate an unconventional-oil production plant to promote early production experience with such plants. Given this goal,facing significant uncertainty about the future, the government wants to limit the...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Santa Monica, CA :
RAND Corp
2008.
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| Series: | Technical report (Rand Corporation) ;
TR-586-AF/NETL. |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009426441206719 |
| Summary: | The government, as a principal, may seek to induce a private investor, as an agent, to build and operate an unconventional-oil production plant to promote early production experience with such plants. Given this goal,facing significant uncertainty about the future, the government wants to limit the cost to the public treasury of doing this. This report offers an analytic way to design and assess packages of policy instruments that the government can use to achieve its goal. It starts with general principles of the economic theories of contracting and agency. Looking across many alternative futures he |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (97 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-77). |
| ISBN: | 9781282451216 9786612451218 9780833048653 |
