This paper develops a simultaneous stochastic rational-expectations model of futures- and spot-price determination. Using the model, the authors find that increases in what they term speculative intensity increase spot-price variability arising from storage-cost shocks, but decrease spot-price...

This article analyzes optimal taxation and debt policies in a model of overlapping generations of finite-lived agents. Taxes are levied proportionately on capital and labor incomes. Tax rates are uniform across all agents. When the social and private discount rates coincide, the optimal...