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Ted C Bergstrom

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Property Rights And Taxation In The Australian Minerals Sector, Ted C. Bergstrom Dec 1983

Property Rights And Taxation In The Australian Minerals Sector, Ted C. Bergstrom

Ted C Bergstrom

Mineral deposits in Australia are generally owned by states. Exploration licenses and mining leases are granted to private firms. They are not sold to the highest bidder but are awarded according to a system of "work program bidding". Such bids entail a promise to undertake a certain amount of exploration expenditure within a specified time interval. Typically a firm that finds a commercially viable mineral deposit is given preference in obtaining a lease to exploit this deposit, but the lease is subject to the conditio that the firm spend at least some specified minimum on developing the lease within a …


Efficiency-Inducing Taxation For A Monopolistically Supplied Depletable Resource, Ted Bergstrom, John Cross, Dick Porter Jun 1981

Efficiency-Inducing Taxation For A Monopolistically Supplied Depletable Resource, Ted Bergstrom, John Cross, Dick Porter

Ted C Bergstrom

We show that for a depletable resource, if the competitive time path of prices is known, and if the profit function is concave, then there is an easily described time path of taxes and/or subsidies that would induce a monopolist to follow an efficient time path of extraction.


Regulation Of Externalities, Ted C. Bergstrom Jan 1976

Regulation Of Externalities, Ted C. Bergstrom

Ted C Bergstrom

This paper presents a general equilibrium model with marketable pollution permits. It shows that competitive equilibrium with marketable permits is "conditionally optimal" in the sense that no Pareto improvement can be achieved without changing pollution standards. The paper also explores mechanisms for choosing efficient aggregate pollution levels.


The Use Of Markets To Control Pollution, Ted C. Bergstrom Jan 1973

The Use Of Markets To Control Pollution, Ted C. Bergstrom

Ted C Bergstrom

No abstract provided.