The authors develop a two-period duopoly model characterized by demand uncer-Abstract tainty to consider how a state government should tax the extraction of a nonrenewable resource. They demonstrate that if firms are risk averse, they tilt production toward the future and underproduce in the...

Monte Carlo simulations are a very powerful way to demonstrate the basic sampling properties of various statistics in econometrics. The commercial software package Stata makes these methods accessible to a wide audience of students and practitioners. The purpose of this chapter is to present a...