The measurement of resource rents: An application to Canadian nickel |
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Authors: | Robert D Cairns |
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Institution: | Centre for the Study of Regulated Industries, McGill University, Stephen Leacock Building, Room 321, 855 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Canada H3A 2T7 |
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Abstract: | Once the ‘risk’ of the industry is recognized, there are at least two sources of higher-than-normal returns to investment in mineral extraction: Ricardian rents to resources with different economic qualities and monopoly rents. An estimate of the relative importance of these sources in the Canadian nickel industry over the period 1961-74 is made and it is found that Ricardian rents and, for one firm, monopoly rents, were important. |
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Keywords: | Nickel Resource rent Canada |
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