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- Bergman, Mats A., et al.
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Large investments in the pulp and paper industry : A count-data regression analysis
- 2002
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Ingår i: Journal of Forest Economics. - : Now Publishers Inc.. - 1104-6899 .- 1618-1530. ; 8, s. 29-52
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper analyses the effects of price and market size variables on the investment propensities in the pulp and paper industry. A panel of 15 European countries in the time period 1988-1997 is used in the regression analysis. We find the wages, the USD/ECU exchange rate, the price of paper and the installed production capacity to be the main determinants of large investments in this industry. Our measure of market size has no - or only very small - effects.
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- Lundmark, Robert, et al.
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Structural changes in Swedish wastepaper demand : a variable cost function approach
- 2003
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Ingår i: Journal of Forest Economics. - : Now Publishers. - 1104-6899 .- 1618-1530. ; 9:1, s. 41-63
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The primary purpose of this paper is to analyse the short-run price responsiveness of wastepaper demand in Sweden for four different paper and board products, as well as any structural changes in demand behaviour for these products over time. The analysis is done within a variable Translog cost function model, and we employ data for individual paper and board mills over the time period 1974-1994. The results suggest that the short-run own-price sensitivity of waste paper demand is relatively high compared to those of other input factors, and it has also tended to increase over time for some of the paper products. In addition, wastepaper demand has also become more sensitive to changes in energy prices, and its use increases with increases in the price of energy. However, the relationship between wastepaper and woodpulp is more complex, and in many instances wastepaper and woodpulp are short-run complements. Overall this implies that price based recycling policies will be relatively successful in promoting wastepaper use, but they will not necessarily lead to the conservation of virgin forest resources.
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- Aguilar Cabezas, Francisco X, et al.
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Dweller Preferences for Wood as a Load-Bearing Material in Residential Buildings
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Forest Economics. - : Now Publishers. - 1104-6899 .- 1618-1530. ; 38, s. 77-111
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The wider use of wood as a load-bearing framing material can advance climate action by storing carbon in long-lived products. Substitution of traditional materials such as brick, concrete, and steel will be partly determined by dweller preferences. Unknown preferences allowed, we elicited stated choices for the following load-bearing materials in residential construction: (i) primarily wood and (ii) wood in combination with other materials, over the use of (iii) traditional (e.g., brick, concrete, steel). Stated choices with an opt-out option gathered from over 7,000 adults residing across seven European nations were modelled using a weighted multinomial logistic regression. Among our explanatory variables, past experience and knowledge dominated higher preferences toward wood over traditional materials. Negative attitudes related to wood harvesting had a strong inverse effect. Preferences show that primarily wood and wood in combination with other materials were perceived as two distinct load-bearing products. A concerted effort to better inform the public on the green credentials and performance features of wood might be necessary to increase its use in European residential load-bearing framing.
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- Andersson, Mats
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Assessing non-industrial private forest owners' attitudes to risk: Do owner and property characteristics matter?
- 2012
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Ingår i: Journal of Forest Economics. - : Now Publishers. - 1104-6899. ; 18, s. 3-13
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study relates owner and property characteristics to non-industrial private forest (NIPF) owners' attitudes to financial risk-taking in forestry decisions. Using a two-period mean-variance setting, the harvesting decisions of NIPF owners are examined with the aim of measuring their willingness to take risks. Since willingness to pay for reduction of risk is empirically unobservable, I rely on an index of NIPF owners' attitudes to risk from a hypothetical survey question involving financial risk. According to the index, respondents (owners) are categorized as risk-averse, risk-neutral or risk-seeking. I apply a probit analysis to test how owner and property characteristics influence the NIPF owners' attitudes to risk. The results show that characteristics influence the formation of risk attitudes. More explicitly, a longer period of ownership increases the probability that the owner is risk-averse, while increased time in the forest conducting silvicultural work increases the likelihood that an owner is risk-seeking. The results also show that female NIPF owners are more risk-seeking than male owners. The study fills a knowledge gap in the literature, relating owner and property characteristics to management decisions. Inclusion of risk attitudes and the judgement of risks into studies of NIPF owners' management can help to understand why NIPF owners' harvesting may deviate from net present value maximisation. (C) 2011 Department of Forest Economics, SLU Umea, Sweden. Published by Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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- Bergman, Mats A., 1964-, et al.
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Imports of pulpwood and price discrimination: A test of buying power in the swedish pulpwood market
- 1999
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Ingår i: Journal of Forest Economics. - : Elsevier. - 1104-6899 .- 1618-1530. ; 5:3, s. 365-385
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Swedish pulp and paper industry's ability to exert monopsony power is tested both with a conjectural variation model, which parameterizes the firms' expectations about other firms' behavior, and with a model that estimates country-specific effects and effects of currency fluctuations on import prices. We use industry data for the 1970-1993 period and find only weak evidence of market power, in spite of the apparent lack of competition.
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- Boman, Mattias
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To pay or not to pay for biodiversity in forests - What scale determines responses to willingness to pay questions with uncertain response options?
- 2009
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Ingår i: Journal of Forest Economics. - : Now Publishers. - 1104-6899. ; 15, s. 79-91
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In applied contingent valuation research, the so-called multiple-bounded dichotomous Choice (MBDC) willingness to pay (WTP) question Format allows respondents to express uncertainty about their valuations. Response data from Such questions are typically treated as ordinal. since the response scale is based on rank-ordered verbal expressions. Their probabilistic nature in combination with a review of empirical Survey results suggest, however, that WTP response data based on verbal expressions Of uncertainty reflect an underlying unmeasured variable at the ratio scale level. The implications were empirically analysed using data From a recent contingent valuation Study on forest land protection for biodiversity Purposes. The verbal response categories to the MBDC (WTP) question were recoded as probabilities. The effects of different probability recodings were analysed when the distribution Of uncertain WTP was assumed to be known. Taking uncertainty into account by means of the underlying probability of acceptance will make contingent Valuation results more meaningful and transparent for both analysts and users. (c) 2008 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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- Bostedt, Göran, 1966-, et al.
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A note of benefits and costs of adjusting forestry to meet recreational demands
- 2006
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Ingår i: Journal of Forest Economics. - : Elsevier. - 1104-6899 .- 1618-1530. ; 12:1, s. 75-81
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Economic studies concerning environmental functions of forests are often partial in the sense that they focus on either benefits or costs. In other words, benefit/cost analyses indicating whether it is economically motivated to change forestry to make it compatible with environmental demands are relatively rare. This benefit/cost analysis deals with the forest as recreation environment, where benefit estimates from a study conducted in the county of Västerbotten, Sweden, are compared with cost estimates from another study in the same county. It is shown that adjustments of forest management to meet recreational demands do largely affect both benefits and costs, and that the results are sensitive to how soon the effects on the recreation environment occur after the adjustments of forest management.
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