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Storage Options and Endogenous Commodity Prices in Continuous Time

Nader Karimi·Erfan Salavati·Hojatollah Adibi
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We study the price formation of a storable commodity when the decision to sell or keep the commodity is treated as an embedded storage option. The price process is not imposed exogenously. Instead, a candidate price function determines the demand dynamics, while the optimal stopping value generated by those dynamics produces a new price function. We call a fixed point of this feedback mechanism an endogenous storage-option equilibrium (ESOE), using a separate acronym to distinguish the continuous-time construction studied here from the stationary rational expectations equilibrium terminology of the classical competitive-storage literature. A global existence result is established on a compact admissible class under a transparent drift--discount condition. The argument avoids the interval-by-interval extension of local fixed points and does not claim uniqueness from Schauder's theorem. We then characterize the equilibrium as a nonlinear obstacle problem and develop a monotone finite-difference/policy-iteration method with an asymptotically consistent far-field boundary condition. The numerical analysis separates fixed-point convergence from spatial discretization error and is supplemented by Monte Carlo validation, scaling diagnostics, comparative statics, and the distribution of optimal selling times. The results clarify how demand elasticity, discounting, depreciation, and volatility jointly determine the storage premium and the selling threshold.

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Nader Karimi, Erfan Salavati, Hojatollah Adibi. 2026-08-31. Storage Options and Endogenous Commodity Prices in Continuous Time. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.29700

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