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| Author: | Wear, D.N. Murray, B.C. |
| Title: | Federal timber restrictions, interregional spillovers, and the impact on US softwood markets |
| Journal: | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
2004 : MAR. VOL. 47:2, p. 307-330 |
| Index terms: | Forest products Timber USA Wood industry |
| Freeterms: | Lumber |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This article tells about an econometric model of the US softwood lumber and timber markets, which is estimated and used to stimulate the price, trade, and welfare effects of reductions in federal timber sales in the western US commencing in the late 1980s. Investigation results show that the timber sale reductions increased lumber prices by roughly 15 percent in the mid-1990s. While lumber consumers were the unambiguous losers from the policy, timber producers were net welfare gainers as the quantity-induced losses to western lumber producers were more than offset by price increases and quantity gains to southern US and Canadian lumber producers and timber producers in all regions. |
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