IMF Working Papers

Oil, National Wealth, and Current and Future Consumption Possibilities

By Gunnar Tersman

June 1, 1991

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Gunnar Tersman. Oil, National Wealth, and Current and Future Consumption Possibilities, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1991) accessed September 18, 2024
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Summary

This paper offers a discussion about the macroeconomics of exhaustible resources. In a resource-based economy, long-term sustainability is an obvious issue. This paper outlines some ideas on how to treat issues related to exhaustible resources in a macroeconomic context. Based on a small dynamic general equilibrium model, the approach is demonstrated with the help of some simple numerical examples.

Subject: Commodities, Consumption, Financial services, Income, National accounts, Oil, Oil prices, Prices, Real interest rates

Keywords: Consumption, Consumption growth, Consumption path, Consumption possibility, Income, Income consumer, Oil, Oil GDP, Oil prices, Real interest rates, Terms of trade, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    58

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1991/060

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0601991

  • ISBN:

    9781451965285

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

Notes

Taking Norway as a point of departure, this paper discusses the macroeconomics of exhaustible resources.