Trophy Hunting vs. Manufacturing Energy: The Price-Responsiveness of Shale Gas

We are grateful to Drillinginfo for drilling and production data underpinning this research and to the Energy Information Administration (EIA) for providing data classifying oil and gas reservoirs as conventional or unconventional. We also thank Rob Jacobs of Caird Energy for providing helpful industry insight and seminar participants at Duke and Rice for helpful comments. Prest also acknowledges support from the Duke Environmental Economics Doctoral Scholars (DEEDS) program. The authors declare that they have no relevant or material financial interests that relate to the research described in this paper. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.