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In the standard Hotelling model of exhaustible resource pricing, the difference between price and the marginal cost of extraction rises at the rate of interest. Yet in practice, prices have rarely followed the smooth upward trajectory implied by the Hotelling model. Provide two different reasons why this is the case.

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