You hired a mathematician to solve a 4-period nonrenewal resource problem assuming a competitive industry and a total resource constrain of 100. He returns an answer to you where per period output levels are increasing and he gets a lambda value: lambda = -3.35. From this you can conclude:

• Demand is too high to support the extraction of the resource, so the marginal user cost become negative.
• Competitive firms place no weight on the future and therefore behave like there is no opportunity cost of extracting resource today.
• Demand is too low for the constrain of 100 to be binding. Therefore, there is no scarcity.
• The mathematician must have made a mathematical mistake.